1762, Thomas Gainsborough paints a portrait of Robert Clive

has description | a une description: The artist Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most eminent British painters of the late eighteenth century and generally known for his landscapes and portraits of British aristocrats. He did in fact paint subjects related to slave societies in the Caribbean and of enslaved people. In or around 1772, he completed an oil painting depicting Robert Clive in a military general's uniform, displaying a document that he is holding in his hand. Although the National Army Museum dates this portrait to around 1764, notes from an old India Office catalogue suggest 1762. This would have been the period when Gainsborough was resident in Bath. Little further information is available about the process of commissioning in the many published biographies of the artist. The majority of these studiously ignore all his work related to colonial subjects.
has type | est de type: conception
carried out by | réalisée par: Gainsborough, Thomas
took place on or within | a eu lieu le ou dans l'intervalle de temps: 1764

is referred to by | est référencé par: National Army Museum; National Portrait Gallery; Ellis Waterhouse, Gainsborough (2nd edition, London: Spring Books, 1966), p. 60

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