SIGNED 1800s GAINSBOROUGH Etching “Lady Georgiana Spencer as a Child” FRAMED COA$284.00
SIGNED 1800s GAINSBOROUGH Etching “Lady Georgiana Spencer as a Child” FRAMED COA
$284.00
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788)
Title: Lady Georgiana Spencer as a Child
Medium: Antique Etching on laid paper after the original by Master Engraver Victor Gustave Lhuillier (French, British, 1844 – 1889).
Year: 1877
Signature: Signed in the Plate, lower center.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 5 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 16 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Portrait of Lady Georgiana Spencer aged 6, after Gainsborough; half-length, turned to right, hands clasped, wearing a bonnet and a dress trimmed with ribon and frills Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757 – 30 March 1806) was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. Of noble birth from the Spencer family, married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. As the Duchess of Devonshire, she garnered much attention and fame in society during her lifetime. With a preeminent position in the peerage of England, the duchess was famous for her charisma, political influence, beauty, unusual marital arrangement, love affairs, socializing, and gambling. She was the great-great-great-grand-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. Their lives, centuries apart, have been compared in tragedy in contemporary time.
Thomas Gainsborough FRSA was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
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