

It was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Sponsor: The exhibition was made possible by General Dynamics and General Dynamics United Kingdom, Ltd. Franklin Kelly, senior curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery, organized the installation in Washington. Michael Rosenthal studied at the Courtauld Institute, and was Leverhulme Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, before arriving at Warwick. Organization: The exhibition was organized by Tate Britain, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 15 of the works were shown only at venues in the United States, and 2 paintings, The Watering Place and The Painter's Daughters with a Cat, were shown only at the National Gallery of Art. Included were portraits, landscape paintings, and scenes of the rural poor. Overview: 63 paintings and 30 drawings by Thomas Gainsborough were presented in this first comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work in more than 20 years. water in the centre of the composition (see Michael Rosenthal, Gainsborough. This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery. This painting was acquired from the studio sale of Gainsborough Dupont (the. 91, mentions that the contemporary press satirized as well as praised Gainsborough for his portrayals of 'upper-class courtesans like Grace Dalrymple'. Thomas Gainsborough, Seashore with Fishermen, c. The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: 'a little business for the Eye'.
