File:Thomas Gainsborough - Conversation in a Park - WGA8400.jpg

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Thomas Gainsborough: Conversation in a Park

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Description	British painter, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death	14 May 1727	2 August 1788
Location of birth/death	Sudbury	London
Work location	Sudbury, London, Ipswich, Bath
Authority file	: Q192720 VIAF: 29542582 ISNI: 0000000108830621 ULAN: 500115200 LCCN: n79055449 NLA: 35109328 WorldCat

Title

French:

Conversation dans un parc, dit auparavant Portrait de Thomas Gainsborough et de sa femme, Margaret Burr (1728-1798), et parfois aussi Portrait de Thomas Sandby (1721-1798), dessinateur et architecte)

Conversation in a Park

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painting

Genre

conversation piece

Date

between 1746 and 1748

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 73 cm (28.7 in)

; width: 68 cm (26.7 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

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Department of Paintings of the Louvre

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Accession number

RF 1952-16 and RF 1952 16 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre)

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas

(b. 1727, Sudbury, d. 1788, London)

Conversation in a Park c. 1740 Oil on canvas, 73 x 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

This charming picture belongs to Gainsborough's early period, when he was working in London and Suffolk. The theme of the conversation in a park evokes Watteau and his school; it denotes a French influence, which played a considerable part in the formation of the artist - he was in fact a pupil of the French engraver Gravelot at the St Martins Lane Academy. This picture has been thought to represent Thomas Sandby and his wife. At the Watson sale in 1832, it was described as depicting the artist and his wife. The painter's marriage took place in 1746; a very similar work, Mr and Mrs Andrews, is dated 1748.

The open-air portrait is a familiar theme in the English school, whereas in eighteenth-century France the portrait is usually in an interior. The evocation of nature by the English portrait painters is on the whole conventional; it is quite another matter with Gainsborough, however, who has treated the landscape for its own sake.

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Author: GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Title: Conversation in a Park Time-line: 1751-1800 School: English Form: painting

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