Thomas GAINSBOROUGH Antique Print The Portrait of Mrs. Graham SIGNED FRAMED COA$279.00
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH Antique Print The Portrait of Mrs. Graham SIGNED FRAMED COA
$279.00
Artist: Sir Thomas Gainsborough (English, baptised 1727 – 1788)
Title: The Hon Mrs. Graham
Medium: Antique heliogravure on wove paper after the original oiol on canvas by a Master Engraver.
Year: 1905
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image size 6 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
This is one of Gainsborough’s finest full-length portraits in the tradition of Van Dyck. The costume and accessories deliberately echo seventeenth century fashion and enhance the elegant beauty of the Honourable Mrs Graham (1757-1792). She was born the Honourable Mary Cathcart, daughter of 9th Baron Cathcart, who was Ambassador to Catherine the Great. She married the Perthshire landowner Thomas Graham in 1774, and they bought Lynedoch House near Methven, Perthshire in 1787. The portrait was highly acclaimed when exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1777. Thomas Graham, devastated by his wife’s premature death in 1792, passed the painting to her sister. It was bequeathed to the National Gallery by one of their descendants on condition that it never leaves Scotland.
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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