The Golden Age of English Painting Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - 1788 Poetry Embodied in Painting.
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Thomas Gainsborough’s birthplace, now a museum to his work, named Gainsborough House, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, an unassuming market town in Suffolk in this house in Sepulchre Street (now Gainsborough Street). He was the youngest son of the family of Gainsboroughs.
Thomas’ father did not oppose to his obvious vocation, and when the boy was 14 he went to London to study painting. For some time he studied under Gravelot.
London in Early 18th Century
In 1746 Gainsborough married Margaret Burr (born in 1728) when she was only 18, and he was but a year older.
Conversation in a Park (Self-Portrait with his Wife, Margaret (probably), 1746-1747, oil on canvas, Le Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
The Roman Termal Baths at Bath
In 1759 the Gainsborough family moved to this fashionable spa town. Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, it developed under George III into an elegant town with fine neoclassical Palladian buildings, which blended harmoniously with the Roman baths. It was in Bath where high society congregated.
Simon Fieldhouse “Royal Academy of Arts, London”, 19th century
Gainsborough exhibited many portraits and landscapes in the first 7 years of the existence of the newly-established Royal Academy.
St. Anne’s Church, Kew, Surrey UK
Thomas Gainsborough died of cancer on August 2, 1788 at the age of 61 and was interred at St. Anne’s Church, Kew, Surrey (located on Kew Green), as it was the painter’s explicit request