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Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her on various occasions throughout their 42-year marriage. Her...

La Toilette

Édouard Manet

Manet made this drawing in preparation for an etching. The central figure’s contours have been incised for transfer to the copper plate. The use of red chalk – unusual by...

Plate with cat's face and paws

Duncan Grant for the Omega Workshops Ltd, 1913

This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her on various occasions throughout their 42-year marriage. Her...

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne

Cézanne became interested in depicting labourers playing cards in the autumn of 1890. During the 1890s he completed five paintings of this subject. Here, the composition is refined down to...

Gower House Side Table, one of a pair

Designed by William Chambers (1723-1796), probably made by Sefferin Alken (active 1744-1783)

This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her on various occasions throughout their 42-year marriage. Her...

Portrait of Francisco de Saavedra   

Francisco de Goya

This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her on various occasions throughout their 42-year marriage. Her...

Young Woman Powdering Herself

Georges Seurat

In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the wall is achieved with the use of small dots of pure colour juxtaposed in...

Bowl with ideal profile of a woman

Castel Durante, Italy, Around 1520-25

This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her on various occasions throughout their 42-year marriage. Her...

Coffee pot

Roger Fry for the Omega Workshops Ltd, 1918

This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her on various occasions throughout their 42-year marriage. Her...

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