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Artists›Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

1727–1788

WA-00016766

Sudbury, UK

PaintingRococo

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

221

Works in Collection

241

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ192720

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Thomas Gainsborough | Tate Britain

Tate

Field Verification (3 fields)

1 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Ai Generated· 88%
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (1)

Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Thomas Gainsborough yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Rococo

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (221)

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The Painter's Daughter Mary (1750–1826)

1830 · Oil on canvas

17 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (43.8 x 35.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[title not known]

1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 182 x 262 mm

Tate

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 190 x 265 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 188 x 267 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 189 x 263 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 192 x 263 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 190 x 265 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 188 x 262 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 187 x 266 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 184 x 260 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 185 x 263 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 191 x 264 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 253 x 192 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 191 x 264 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 188 x 258 mm

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1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 258 x 186 mm

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1819 · Etching on paper

image: 190 x 262 mm

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1819 · Etching on paper

image: 180 x 254 mm

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1819 · Etching on paper

image: 194 x 269 mm

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[title not known]

1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 192 x 265 mm

Tate

[title not known]

1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 188 x 264 mm

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1819 · Etching on paper

image: 196 x 268 mm

Tate

[title not known]

1819 · Etching on paper

image: 187 x 264 mm

Tate

[title not known]

1819 · Etching and watercolour on paper

image: 196 x 267 mm

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Artwork sources (6)

221 published of 221 catalogued · 198 with image

Tate
148 published148 img
The Met
30 published7 img
Nga
20 published20 img
Art Institute Chicago
12 published12 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published7 img
Rijksmuseum
4 published4 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Landweg met geboomte en boerenkar
1765 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Six Studies of a Cat
1763 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Landschap met een groep reizigers onder een grote boom langs een bospad
1753 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Boslandschap met paard en wagen bij een huis
— · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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[title not known]
1819 · Tate · 1 prov
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[title not known]
1819 · Tate · 1 prov
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Landscape with Castle and Carriage
— · Tate · 1 prov
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A Road through a Wood
— · Tate · 1 prov
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Sir Francis Gregg
1770 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Three Cows
1785 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

19 assets

Six Studies of a Cat (c. 1763 - c. 1769)

Rijksmuseum

Landweg met geboomte en boerenkar (1765 - 1769)

Rijksmuseum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle (1779–1780)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Scene with a Road Winding through a Wood (c. 1770)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage (published in 1797)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool (mid-1780s)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Relationships

Movements1

Rococo

Collections7

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

National Gallery of Art

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Exhibition Thomas Gainsborough | Tate Britain