Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville
Thomas Gainsborough
c. 1786
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 127 × 101.6 cm (50 × 40 in.) framed: 151.1 × 127 × 8.3 cm (59 1/2 × 50 × 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2014.79.705
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough · 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough was born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of nine children to wool dealer John Gainsborough and his wife Mary. Demonstrating prodigious talent from childhood, he sketched landscapes in the local woods and fields, fostering his lifelong passion for the genre. At age thirteen, he moved to London, where he trained under the French engraver and illustrator Hubert-Fr...