![]() Search for: Follow James Innes-Mulraine on Recent Posts Sarah has a similar flash of expression to the lady in green, a direct, challenging look and the hint of a smile about to break. Susannah was 17 that year, too young for our sitter, though only a year older than Gainsborough at the date he painted the lady in green. Sarah would’ve been 25 in 1743, a plausible age for the lady in green. In the flesh you can also see that she has slate grey eyes, like Sarah and Susannah Gainsborough, and like Gainsborough himself. So, if Gainsborough paints the lady in green with a broad forehead, long nose, high cheekbones, thin mouth and strong chin, we can trust that’s what she looked like. Gainsborough is not one of those painters who makes all his sitters look the same. Credit line: (c) (c) Royal Academy of Arts / Photographer credit: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited / Gainsborough, Thomas Self-portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. ![]() Mrs Susanna Gardiner c.1780-5 Thomas Gainsborough 1727-1788 Presented by Miss Marjorie Gainsborough Gardiner 1965 īoth looked just like their brother, though he has more of a mouth, seen in the 1787 self-portrait (Royal Academy of Arts). Gainsborough had two sisters, Sarah Mrs Philip Dupont ( c.1718 – 1795) – mother of his assistant Gainsborough Dupont – painted here by Gainsborough c.1777 (cat 295 Art Institute of Chicago)Īnd Susannah Mrs Richard Gardiner (1726 – after c.1777), in a portrait painted by Gainsborough at about the same date as her sister’s (cat 384 Tate Britain). But my father believes they’re more closely related than that, and he wonders if they’re brother and sister. The two portraits have a stylistic kinship that identifies them as works by the same painter. It impressed everyone when they first saw the painting. The similarity between the lady in green and the self-portrait is very striking. (c) left Matthew Holbrook, right Philip Mould ![]()
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