1783 In Art
Events from the year 1783 in art. Events * Thomas Gainsborough removes a set of 15 portraits of King George III of Great Britain and the royal family from the Royal Academy summer exhibition in London and places them at Schomberg House, his home. Works * Marie-Gabrielle Capet – :File:Marie-Gabrielle Capet - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg, Self-portrait * John Singleton Copley ** ''The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781'' ** ''The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782'' * Thomas Gainsborough – '':File:Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783.jpg, Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire'' * Thomas Jones (artist), Thomas Jones – ''A Storm – Prospero, Miranda and Caliban Spying the Shipwrecked Ferdinand'' * Joseph Lange – Unfinished :File:Mozart (unfinished) by Lange 1782.jpg, portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his brother-in-law * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** '':File:Admiral Hood 1783.jpg, Admiral Hood'' ** ''Th ...
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Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy. Youth and training He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife Mary, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs. One of Gainsborough's brothers, Humphrey, had a faculty for mechanics and was said to have invented the method of condensing steam in a separate ve ...
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