2. Thomas Gainsborough
(1727- 1788)
• portraiture
• landscape
• conversation pieces
• animal painting
• seascape
• still life
3. Thomas Gainsborough
(1727- 1788)
• 1746 - married
Margaret Burr
• 1748 – Mary was
born
• 1752 – Margaret was
born
4. Mary & Margaret
“The Painter's Daughters “Portrait of the Artist's
“Two Daughters
Chasing a Butterfly” Daughters”
Holding a Cat”
(1756) (1760)
(1759)
5. The PainTer’s Two DaughTers
• Date: 1758
• Material: oil on
canvas (two canvases
joined)
Mary, 10 Margaret, 6