![]() This patina makes Gainsborough's artistic character particularly difficult to define.Ģ50 years after Gainsborough painted his last picture, art historians have to pick up the pieces to recreate his artistic personalityĪrguably Gainsborough was blessed with more natural ability than any of his contemporaries in Britain. Gainsborough's link with female beauty encouraged advertisers to use his name to promote ladies' cigarettes, cosmetics including powder compacts and even a 'Gainsborough Genuine Hair Net: The Net of the Life-like Lustre'. The taste for Gainsborough straddled the Atlantic, where robber barons such as Henry Clay Frick and Henry Edwards Huntington bought exceptional examples in the early twentieth century. Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English Heritage, Kenwood ![]()
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