Portrait of Carl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough, 1777

A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O ' Toole as the title character, was made in 1987.

* Kitty ( 1945 ) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway.

Image: Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Portrait of the Composer Carl Friedrich Abel with his Viola da Gamba ( c. 1765 )

Image: Johann Christian Bach by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Johann Christian Bach, ( 1776 )

* www. Thomas-Gainsborough. org 70 works by Thomas Gainsborough

Image: Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Portrait of Carl Friedrich Abel, composer and viol master — German-born but residing in England most of his life — posed with his viola da gamba.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Having been favorably impressed by Clyfton's services, he had begun participating in Separatist services led by John Smyth in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

The international collection includes works by Bernini, Bordone, Canaletto, Cézanne, Constable, Correggio, van Dyck, Gainsborough, El Greco, Manet, Modigliani, Monet, Memling, Poussin, Rembrandt, Ribera, Rodin, Rothko, Rubens, Picasso, Pissarro, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Turner, Uccello, Veronese, and other masters.

His first feature-length film, The Boy in Blue, a drama inspired by the famous Thomas Gainsborough painting, was released in 1919.

The Royal Academy of Arts was formed as the RSA's spin-off organisation in 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, two early members of the RSA, as a result of first exhibition of contemporary art.

During the 19th century, irreverence towards authority was at its height and for every elegant military gentleman painted by the master-portraitists of the European courts for example, Gainsborough, Goya and Reynolds, there are the sometimes affectionate and sometimes savage caricatures of Rowland and Hogarth.

He also had access to Harvey's art collection which allowed him to hone his skills by copying the works of masters like Gainsborough and Hobbemas.

Among works that particularly inspired him during this period were paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Claude Lorrain, Peter Paul Rubens, Annibale Carracci and Jacob van Ruisdael.

During her years in the public eye, Georgiana was painted several times by both Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds.

File: Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783

File: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787.

* Portraits of Georgiana by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Cosway and others.

The Stour valley has been portrayed as a working river by John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and Paul Nash.

Portrait of Mr and Mrs William Hallett by Thomas Gainsborough, 1785.

Named Phoebe and Mercury, the dogs were depicted in paintings by Sir Thomas Gainsborough.

Painting by Thomas Gainsborough 1783

Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, Thomas Hearne and John Warwick Smith.

Topcliffe was the eldest son of Robert Topcliffe of Somerby, Lincolnshire, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough.

Mr and Mrs Andrews | Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1748-1750

Other artists represented include Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, Joseph Wright, John Constable, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, Robert Polhill Bevan, Stanley Spencer, Barbara Hepworth, and Ben Nicholson.

In 1810, he published Studies of Landscapes by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, & c., imitated from the originals by L. F.

He has published several books: Genial Company: the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture, 1987 ; The Georgians: eighteenth-century portraiture and society, 1990 ; Dramatic Art: theatrical paintings from the Garrick Club, 1997 ; Rembrandt to Gainsborough: masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1999 ; Shakespeare in Art, 2003 ; Bruegel to Rubens: masters of Flemish painting, 2007 ; and The Conversation Piece: scenes of fashionable life, 2009.

In his last years, Gainsborough painted relatively simple landscapes and is credited ( with Richard Wilson ) as the originator of the 18th century British landscape school.

* August 2 – Thomas Gainsborough, British painter ( b. 1727 )

The British film company Gainsborough Pictures offered Novello a well-paid contract, which enabled him to buy a country house in Littlewick Green, near Maidenhead.

Fine both in design and colour, it is carried out with a supple dexterity of hand which has scarcely been equalled in the British school since the death of Gainsborough.

The collections of French decorative and applied art from the 17th – 18th centuries and British applied and fine art from the 16th – 19th century, including Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, are on display in nearby rooms facing the courtyard.

The Field-Marshalls were a range of British farm tractors manufactured by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

During the 1940s the British Gainsborough melodramas were very successful with audiences.

The best known works of British art are The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and Sarah Barrett Moulton: " Pinkie " by Thomas Lawrence.

* John Hayes ( art historian ) ( 1929 – 2005 ), British art historian and museum director, expert on Gainsborough

He worked at the British film studios of Elstree, then Gainsborough, then Ealing ; the Gainsborough period was the most consistently successful, particularly when he worked with the team of Marcel Varnel ( director ), Val Guest and Marriott Edgar ( writers ), and Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt ( supporting cast )-as on the railway film Oh, Mr Porter!

The Two Georges, a Gainsborough painting, commemorates the agreement between George Washington and King George III that created this part of the British Empire.

( 1767 – 1828 ), Flag Captain under Admiral Jervis, Flag Captain of King George III's Royal Yacht ( 1801-4 ) and Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard ( 1804-6 ) & Portsmouth Dockyard ( 1806 – 28 ), married Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread ( 1720-1796 ), whose sons: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1799 – 1882 ) was a British Statesman and Home Secretary, and Charles Samuel Grey, Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland ; and daughters: Mary married Capt Thomas Monck Mason, Elizabeth married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Harriet married Revd John Jenkinson, Hannah Jean married Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet, Jane married Francis Baring,

Among the British artists represented are Aubrey Beardsley, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Rossetti and Turner.

Balcon had earlier worked for Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British and MGM-British.

Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London.

In 1987 Sir Lew Grade brought back the Gainsborough name for a series of British made for television movies.

After the departure of Balcon to the British arm of MGM, the Rank Organisation took an interest in Gainsborough and the studio made such popular films as Oh, Mr Porter!

Mr and Mrs Andrews ( 1748-49 ) is a painting by British artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting members of the landed gentry.

Works are also on view from The Berger Collection, one of the largest private individual collections of British art in the world, with more than 150 pieces by British artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, Edward Lear and other artists of the English School that covers a period of 6 centuries.

This introduced an alternative to the various Dutch and Flemish artists who had previously set the prevailing landscape style in Britain, and through intermediary artists such as George Lambert, the first British painter to base a career on landscape subjects, was to greatly influence other British artists such as Gainsborough.

This introduced an alternative to the various Dutch and Flemish artists who had previously set the prevailing landscape style in Britain, and through intermediary artists such as George Lambert, the first British painter to base a career on landscape subjects, was to greatly influence other British artists such as Gainsborough.