Thomas Gainsborough当时的生活
完整生平1740
To London to study art
In 1740 Gainsborough leaves home to study art in London. He lodges with a silversmith, takes drawing lessons from Hubert-François Gravelot, a teacher at the St Martin's Lane Academy, and grows close to William Hogarth and his circle.
15 July 1746
Marriage to Margaret Burr
On 15 July 1746 Gainsborough marries Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort.
1748
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”.
1750年1月31日
Daughter born: Mary Gainsborough Fischer
1751
Daughter born: Margaret Gainsborough
