Gainsborough, Thomas

has biography | a une biographie: English portrait and landscape painter. Gainsborough painted a number of figures with connections to transatlantic slavery and colonialism during the eighteenth century. These include, for example, the absentee slave-owner and MP Charles Tudway (c. 1765) as well as The Byam Family (c.1762–66) and The Baillie Family (c. 1784). In 1768, Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ignatius Sancho, who was a Black British writer, composer, and abolitionist. Gainsborough also painted portraits of Robert Clive, credited with turning the British East India Company into an imperial state in India, and his son, Edward Clive.
was born | est né: 14 May 1727
died in | est mort par: 2 August 1788
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: artist; depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; National Gallery - Thomas Gainsborough; The Courtauld Gallery - Charles Tudway MP; The Sancho Portrait; National Army Museum, Robert, Lord Clive, 1764; Ellis Waterhouse, Gainsborough (London: Spring Books, 1958)

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1762, Thomas Gainsborough paints a portrait of Robert Clive

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Statue of Thomas Gainsborough, Sudbury

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