Large 18th Century portrait of Margaret, daughter of Thomas Gainsborough, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition side profile in a feigned oval of the young lady wearing a blue dress. Presented in its original antique gilt frame. The composition is a variation in a more fluid style to the 1772 work held by The Tate and is either by a member of the Gainsboroughs circle of a preliminary work by Gainsborough to the one held by The Tate.
Provenance: Gifted by Margaret Gainsborough to Rev W Green
Margaret Gainsborough
Gainsboroughs younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder sister Mary at the parental home in Pall Mall, London.Although he enjoyed a reckless social life, Gainsborough attempted to shield his daughters from the attentions of would-be suitors, declining to make fine trumpery of them, and let them be led away with Vanity, and ever subject to disappointment in the wild Goose chase. Margaret remained unmarried and lived out the final years her life in Acton, west London, where she cared for her elder sister.
Measurements: 41" x 34.5" framed approx
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