Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville

Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville by Thomas Gainsborough

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 · 17271788

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...

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