Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Margaret c.1772 Oil on canvas, 75.6 × 62.9 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough’s younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Mary 1777 Oil on canvas, 77.5 × 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London On loan to Gainsborough’s House (Sudbury, UK). Gainsborough was very fond of his two daughters and painted them frequently from childhood into their late…
(1750–1826) Mary “Molly” Fischer, née Gainsborough Mary in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Mary 1777 Tate Britain, London Father Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mother Margaret Burr (1728-1798) Sister…
(1751–1820) Margaret “Peggy” Gainsborough Margaret in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Margaret c.1772 Tate Britain, London Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Margaret Gainsborough holding a…
(?-1748) Mary in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter c.1748 National Gallery, London Father Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mother Margaret Burr (1728-1798) Sister Mary Gainsborough (1750-1826) Brother-in-law Johann Christian Fischer (c.1733-1800) Sister Margaret Gainsborough (1751-1820)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy c.1777 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The two dogs in this painting belonged to the musician Carl Friedrich Abel, the last of the great viola da gamba virtuosi. Abel was…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Tristram and Fox c.1775–1785 Oil on canvas, 61 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough had a countryman’s love of dogs and included them in numerous portraits and landscape paintings. He also painted a few works where dogs…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Coup de lumière (Effect of Light) 1935 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 61.6 cm Tate Britain, London Although this picture was dated 1926 when exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, its first owner, Sam Salz, said that it…
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Not a Shoe 1950 Galvanized plaster, 7 x 5.1 × 2.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Coin de chasteté (Wedge of Chastity) 1954, cast 1963 Bronze and plastic, 63 x 87 × 42 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection),…