Artist: Sir Thomas Gainsborough (English, (baptised 1727 – 1788)
Medium: Antique steel engraving on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by Master Engraver Peter Lightfoot (British, 1805 – 1885).
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Dimensions: Image Size – 8 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 20 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
‘Musidora’ a young woman sitting on the banks of a stream, loosely draped with her hair dressed up and tresses over her right shoulder, her right foot in the water, looking down at her right hand as she washes her left foot, resting it on the other knee, with trees behind to right; in an oval.
Thomas Gainsborough 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 characterized 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.