Thomas Gainsborough

(1727-1788)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 NRA: Gainsborough Thomas (1727-1788) Painter DNB: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788), painter and printmaker LBT ID: ThGains1788 VIAF ID: 29542582 LOC ID: n79055449	B/BAP: 1727-05-14 DIED: 1788-08-02
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English portrait and landscape painter whose popularity rivalled that of Joshua Reynolds.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Gainsborough: William Wordsworth to William Godwin, 9 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Miss Tyler,” 7 April 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter II. 1781-1787 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: VI Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1: ¶ 15 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VI 1792-1803 Found 1: ¶ 24 Ch. VII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 14 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 21 John Keats Found 1: ¶ 33