Sarah Dupont
Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788)
c. 1777–79
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 77.2 × 64.5 cm (30 3/8 × 25 3/8 in.); Framed: 95.3 × 84.5 × 8.9 cm (37 1/2 × 33 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Hull, Mr. and Mrs. William Kimball, and Mrs. Charles McCulloch
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Although Thomas Gainsborough is known best for dazzling and opulent full-length portraits of society figures, the artist’s smaller paintings of his family are notable for their directness and intimacy. The subject of this portrait is the artist’s older sister, who married a carpenter in the siblings’ hometown of Sudbury in Suffolk, England, where Gainsborough established himself as a portrait painter before moving on to the fashionable cities of Bath and London.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
