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Britain, from Gainsborough to Turner

British Painting

British painting from the 1760s to the 1860s, a century of portraits, horses and weather. Gainsborough's cottage children gathering wood, Reynolds's Lady Smith with her children, Stubbs's hunter held by a groom, Landseer's deerhound, Constable's Salisbury Cathedral framed by trees, and Turner's whalers lost in the spray. Soft skies, silk and a good deal of cloud.

33 pictures, pick one to build

Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1787 Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds John Constable, ca. 1825 Flower study John Jessop Hardwick, 1866 Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt" Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, ca. 1824–26 Dying Stag Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, ca. 1830 Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers) Thomas Gainsborough, 1787 The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1761–66 William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835) Sir Henry Raeburn, 1801 Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843) Sir Thomas Lawrence, ca. 1824–25 A Deerhound Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1826 Admiral Harry Paulet (1719/20–1794), Sixth Duke of Bolton Francis Cotes Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823) Thomas Gainsborough, 1778 Mrs. Charles Frederick (Martha Rigden, died 1794) George Romney The Drummond Children Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808–9 Whalers Joseph Mallord William Turner, ca. 1845 The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog George Stubbs, 1768 Queen Charlotte Thomas Gainsborough Wooded Upland Landscape Thomas Gainsborough, probably 1783 Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819) Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780 Lieutenant Colonel Paul Pechell (1724–1800) Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow Thomas Gainsborough, 1770s The Painter's Daughter Mary (1750–1826) Copy after Thomas Gainsborough, mid-19th century Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1789 Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1764 Thomas (1740–1825) and Martha Neate (1741–after 1795) with His Tutor, Thomas Needham Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1748 George Capel, Viscount Malden (1757–1839), and Lady Elizabeth Capel (1755–1834) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1768 Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782 Georgiana Augusta Frederica Elliott (1782–1813), Later Lady Charles Bentinck Sir Joshua Reynolds and Workshop, 1784 George Harley Drummond (1783–1855) Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808–9 Mrs. Richard Alexander Oswald (Louisa Johnston, ?born about 1760, died 1797) Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1794 James Johnston of Straiton (died 1841) Sir Henry Raeburn Janet Law Sir Henry Raeburn John Gray (1731–1811) of Newholm Sir Henry Raeburn