Who created "Seashore with Fishermen"?

Seashore with Fishermen was created by Thomas Gainsborough in c. 1781/1782.

When was "Seashore with Fishermen" created?

This artwork was created c. 1781/1782.

What medium is "Seashore with Fishermen"?

Seashore with Fishermen is oil on canvas.

Is "Seashore with Fishermen" in the public domain?

Yes, Seashore with Fishermen is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Seashore with Fishermen

Thomas Gainsborough

c. 1781/1782

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 101.9 x 127.6 cm (40 1/8 x 50 1/4 in.) framed: 124.5 x 149.9 x 7 cm (49 x 59 x 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CAB

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.121

Art Historical Context

Thomas Gainsborough's *Seashore with Fishermen*, around 1781–1782, captures the interplay of sea, sky, and humble figures in a quintessential English landscape. This oil on canvas, measuring 101.9 x 127.6 cm, exemplifies the artist's late-career mastery, created just years before his death in 1788. Housed in the National Gallery of Art as part of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, it invites viewers into Gainsborough's imaginative world, where rugged coastlines and everyday laborers evoke a sense of poetic tranquility amid nature's vastness. Gainsborough, a leading figure of 18th-century Brit...

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...

Seashore with Fishermen

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