Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
2018
- Gainsborough鈥檚 Family Album ,National Portrait Gallery, London ,London, UK
- Gainsborough and the Theatre ,The Holburne Museum ,Bath, UK
- Project Blue Boy ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing ,The Morgan Library & Museum ,New York, USA
- Thomas Gainsborough: Modern Landscape ,Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
2013
- Gainsborough in Print: Selections from The Huntington鈥檚 Art Collections ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Gainsborough in Print: Selections from The Huntington鈥檚 Art Collections ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Revisiting The Cottage Door: Gainsborough鈥檚 Masterpiece in Focus ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Masterpieces from Kenwood: The Splendour of British & French Painting ,Gainsborough鈥檚 House ,Sudbury, UK
- Pastoral on Paper ,Clark Art Institute ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond ,Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Beck Building ,Houston, Texas, USA
2024
- The Image of the Artist: Portraits from the Royal Academy ,Gainsborough鈥檚 House ,Sudbury, UK
- Beyond the Surface: Capturing Meaning Through Portraiture ,Rollins Museum of Art ,Winter Park, Florida, USA
- Far And Away: Drawings From The Clement C. Moore Collection ,The Morgan Library & Museum ,New York, USA
- Couples: A Celebration Of Artistic Synergy + Collaboration ,Colnaghi, London ,St. James's, London, UK
- Stories in Stitch ,The Bowes Museum ,Durham, UK
2023
- Threads Of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles ,Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki ,Auckland, New Zealand
- Fine Lines: Works on Paper from the Masterson Collection ,Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Rienzi ,Houston, Texas, USA
- Drawing In Britain, 1700鈥�1900: New Additions to the Collection ,National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. ,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Finding Family ,The Foundling Museum ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Fine Lines: Works on Paper from the Masterson Collection ,Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Rienzi ,Houston, Texas, USA
- The Sassoons ,The Jewish Museum New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2022
- Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart ,Southampton City Art Gallery ,Southampton, UK
- Dandy Style ,Manchester Art Gallery ,Manchester, UK
- Selections From The Ishibashi Foundation Collection: Special Section Country, City, Family ,Artizon Museum ,Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781 - 2022 ,Royal West Of England Academy ,Bristol, UK
- 100 Great British Drawings ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Old Masters, Modern Masters: Drawings from the Hussey Bequest ,Pallant House Gallery ,Chichester, UK
2021
2019
- JMW Turner: Walton Bridges ,Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery ,Norwich, UK
- Thinking of The Neue... ,Alte Pinakothek ,Munich, Germany
- From Goya to Manet: The 19th Century ,Alte Pinakothek ,Munich, Germany
- European and American Art: Bow Gallery ,Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion ,Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009 鈥� 2019 ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
- The Lie of the Land ,MK Gallery ,Milton Keynes, UK
- Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud ,Compton Verney ,Warwickshire, UK
- Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection ,Denver Art Museum ,Sun Valley, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Renaissance to Modern Remix: Highlights from the European and American Art Collection ,Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion ,Champaign, Illinois, USA
2018
2017
- Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum ,Princeton University Art Museum ,Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Creating the Countryside: Thomas Gainsborough to Today ,Compton Verney ,Warwickshire, UK
- Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World ,Yale Center for British Art ,New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2016
- British Art in Travels ,Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts ,Utsunomiya, Japan
- Van Gogh & Friends ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck ,The National Gallery, London ,St. James's, London, UK
- English Rose: Feminine Beauty from Van Dyck to Sargent ,The Bowes Museum ,Durham, UK
- Treasures of British Art ,Denver Art Museum ,Sun Valley, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Marks of Genius 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the... ,North Carolina Museum of Art ,Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
2015
- Art of the Fold: Drawings of Drapery and Costume ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales ,UMFA, Utah Museum of Fine Arts ,Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Works on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery ,Yale Center for British Art ,New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Luminous Worlds: British Works on Paper, 1760鈥�1900 ,Legion of Honor, FAMSF ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Rolling Hills, Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape ,The Frick Art Museum ,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Eye to Eye: Looking Beyond Likeness ,Buffalo AKG Art Museum ,Buffalo, New York, USA
- Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and the Golden Age of Painting in Europe ,Huntsville Museum of Art ,Huntsville, Alabama, USA
- Rubens and His Legacy ,Royal Academy of Arts ,Mayfair, London, UK
2014
- Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery ,The Frick Collection ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts ,GRAM, Grand Rapids Art Museum ,Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and the Golden Age of Painting in Europe ,Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art ,Auburn University, Alabama, USA
- Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House ,Legion of Honor, FAMSF ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Silent Partners: Artist & Mannequin from Function to Fetish ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
- Treasures of British Art 1400鈥�2000: The Berger Collection ,Portland Museum of Art, Maine ,Portland, Maine, USA
- Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery ,Winnipeg Art Gallery ,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Prints and drawings: Europe 1500-1900 ,Art Gallery of New South Wales ,Sydney, Australia
- Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art ,Minneapolis Institute of Art ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany ,The Morgan Library & Museum ,New York, USA
- Genius and Ambition: The Royal Academy of Arts, London 1768-1918 ,Bendigo Art Gallery ,Bendigo, Australia
- Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and the Golden Age of Painting ,Orlando Museum of Art ,Orlando, Florida, USA
- Treasures in MK ,MK Gallery ,Milton Keynes, UK
2013
- Copley, Delacroix, Dali and Others: Masterworks From The Beaverbrook Art Gallery ,Mobile Museum of Art ,Mobile, Alabama, USA
- Face Time: Portraits and Figures in Paintings and Sculpture ,Clark Art Institute ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough & The Golden Age of Painting in Europe ,UK Art Museum ,Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Making Faces ,Falmouth Art Gallery ,Falmouth, UK
- Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London ,Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts ,Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- The Art of the Empire: Three Centuries of British Art ,Museo de Arte de Ponce ,Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London ,Seattle Art Museum ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art ,Cleveland Museum of Art ,Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- The Golden Age of European Painting from the Speed Art Museum ,Vero Beach Museum of Art ,Vero Beach, Florida, USA
2012
- Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape ,Royal Academy of Arts ,Mayfair, London, UK
- The Art of Drawing: Portraits from the Collection, 1670-1780 ,National Portrait Gallery, London ,London, UK
- Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London ,Milwaukee Art Museum ,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery ,The Frick Collection ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Rembrandt, Rubens and Golden Age of Painting in Europe 1600 -1800 from the Speed Art Museum Louisville, Kentucky ,El Paso Museum of Art ,El Paso, Texas, USA
- Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London ,Museum of Fine Arts Houston ,River Oaks, Houston, Texas, USA
- The Triumph of Pleasure: Vauxhall Gardens 1729 - 1786 ,The Foundling Museum ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Selections from the Museum鈥檚 Collection of European Master Drawings ,The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The Family in British Art ,Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery ,Sheffield, UK
- Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum ,Dixon Gallery and Gardens ,Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2011
- The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons ,National Portrait Gallery, London ,London, UK
- British Watercolours: 1760鈥�1900 The Age of Splendour ,NGV International ,Melbourne, Australia
- Falmouth Frameworks ,Falmouth Art Gallery ,Falmouth, UK
- James Mackelvie's Gift to Auckland ,Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki ,Auckland, New Zealand
- Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Connections ,Yale Center for British Art ,New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Art of Enlightenment ,National Museum of China ,Dongcheng, Beijing, China
- Romantic Nature: British and French Landscapes ,Clark Art Institute ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Romantics to Moderns: A Survey of British Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of BNY Mellon ,Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Masterpiece a Month: Presiding Genius ,Dulwich Picture Gallery ,London, UK
2010
- The Lure of Myth: British Drawings from The Huntington鈥檚 Art Collections ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Picturesque to Pastoral: British Landscape Prints ,The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens ,San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Collection Highlights from Europe 1500鈥�1800, Greece and Rome ,Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ,Stanford, California, USA
- Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery ,The Frick Collection ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2009
- Constable and After: Sir Edwin Manton and the British Landscape ,Clark Art Institute ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Portrait, Figure, Sketch: English Drawings from the 18th Century ,Gemäldegalerie ,Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- The Conversation Piece ,The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace ,London, UK
- Drawing Attention: Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso and more ,Dulwich Picture Gallery ,London, UK
- The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life ,The King's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse ,Edinburgh, UK
Thomas Gainsborough was a British Old Masters painter who was born in 1727. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. have featured Thomas Gainsborough's work in the past.Thomas Gainsborough's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 5 USD to 10,515,792 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 10,515,792 USD for Portrait of Mrs. William Villebois, sold at Christie's London in 2011. In the past 12 months, their works on paper have averaged 7,999 USD, while their paintings have sold for an average of 2,635 USD.Thomas Gainsborough has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Art Newspaper in May 2025. The artist died in 1788.