
1748
City of Westminster, United Kingdom
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Description
painting by Thomas Gainsborough
Medium
oil paint
Dimensions
69.8 × 119.4 cm
💡 Did you know
Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of the sitters until 1960 and was very little known before it appeared in an exhibition in Ipswich in 1927, after which it was regularly requested for other exhibitions in Britain and abroad, and praised by critics for its charm and freshness. By the post-war years its iconic status was established, and it was one of four paintings chosen to represent British art in an exhibition in Paris celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.