Thomas GainsboroughΗνωμένο Βασίλειο, 1727–1788The Fallen Tree
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The Fallen Tree is a landscape Thomas Gainsborough painted around 1750–53, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Beyond the fallen trunk and grazing cattle stands the spire of Saint Andrew's at Great Cornard. The church was only about a kilometre from his home in Sudbury, Suffolk. As a young artist, Gainsborough explored Cornard Wood and the Stour Valley, carrying a sketchbook. Despite his later fame as a portraitist, he preferred landscapes and helped establish their place in British art. This canvas hangs in gallery G324.
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Though best known for his magnificent portraits, Thomas Gainsborough preferred painting “landskips” (as he called them) and played a key role in establishing the importance of landscape in British art. As a young artist he enjoyed the beauties of his native Suffolk countryside, walking the picturesque landscape of the Stour Valley and Cornard Wood with sketchbook in hand. The distant spire behind the fallen tree and grazing cows can be identified as the small parish church of Saint Andrews in Great Cornard, just a kilometer from Gainsborough's house in his hometown of Sudbury (Suffolk).
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Στοιχεία
- Αριθμός καταλόγου
- 53.1
Στον κατάλογο
Πηγές
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Εικόνα: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain
Στη ζωή του καλλιτέχνη: Thomas Gainsborough
Όλη η ζωή1748
His father dies; back to Sudbury
Gainsborough's father, John, dies in 1748. With no new commissions coming in London, the painter returns to Sudbury, to the house of his childhood.
c. 1749
Landscapes do not pay: a turn to portraiture
Gainsborough has always thought of himself as a landscape painter, but landscapes bring no income: in the England of the day they count as a “low genre”. Around 1749 he unites portrait and landscape in one composition for the first time, in “Mr and Mrs Andrews”.
31 Ιανουαρίου 1750
Daughter born: Mary Gainsborough Fischer
1751
Daughter born: Margaret Gainsborough
1752
The move to Ipswich
In 1752 Gainsborough, his wife and their two daughters, Mary (“Molly”) and Margaret (“Peggy”), move to Ipswich. Portrait commissions increase, but his clients are mostly local merchants and squires, and he has to borrow against his wife's annuity of £200, which the Duke of Beaufort had settled on her.
c. 1752 – 1759
The Ipswich Music Club
In Ipswich Gainsborough becomes a member of the Music Club, where he meets fellow music lovers and professional musicians; later he will paint portraits of some of them, and a group portrait of the club's members.
