His paintings are so beautiful. This one of Grace Dalrymple Elliott has a story you can read below.
Just wanted to share with you this portrait and details, and a few notes. Here goes…
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823), 1778
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)
Oil on canvas
92 1/4 x 60 1/2 in. (234.3 x 153.7 cm)
Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920 (20.155.1)
Gainsborough moved to London in 1774, and by 1777 was well established, exhibiting portraits of members of the royal family at the Royal Academy. This full-length of the statuesque Mrs. Elliott—a Scottish lady of great beauty but easy virtue—was apparently commissioned by her lover, the first marquis of Cholmondeley, and was exhibited at the Academy in 1778. Its elegance, delicate coloring, and fluid handling reflect the influence of Anthony van Dyck.
Very Beautiful, he is one of my favorites, besides the spanish Diego Velázquez , I saw his « Portrait of a Lady in Blue » in one expo from the Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg), at the Pinacothèque de Paris, very very nice too.