How To Use Gainsborough In A Sentence

  • This was very dismayful, all the more because Colonel Gainsborough did not come out frankly with the whole truth. A Red Wallflower
  • Love Story is also historically interesting for the way it combines the heightened emotions of the Gainsborough costume melodramas with the ingredients of the more realistic wartime dramas that the studio produced at the same time.
  • Society portraiture continued to thrive, as much in demand in the 1950s as in Gainsborough's day.
  • The children, pupils of William Harrison School and Beckett School in Gainsborough, were treated for minor injuries, such as whiplash, at Lincoln County Hospital.
  • Young Gainsborough, who spent three years amid the works of the painters in St. Martin's-lane, Hayman, and Cipriani, who were all eminently convival, were, in all probability, frequenters of Slaughter's. All About Coffee
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  • If somebody entered the National Gallery and defaced a Gainsborough they would be prosecuted.
  • Best known for his important landscapes and portraits, Gainsborough depicted a diverse range of subjects, from powerful individuals to the rural poor.
  • I recently bought a Gainsborough, which a contemporary critic said had been "embosomed by nature" and that is what I feel about my house. Philip Mould Unearths England's Bucolic Beauty
  • David ventures from the River Stour in Suffolk, past the idyllic millstreams where Constable worked alongside his father as a boy, and on to Sudbury, the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough.
  • She sandwiches the concert between summer festival appearances in the Isle of Man, Holmfirth, Sidmouth, Gainsborough and Norway.
  • The following year Gainsborough and his family removed to London, taking residence in Schomberg House, Pall Mall.
  • The London-based Arts Lost Register (ALR) said the two works, Madame Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough and View of Florence by Bernardo Belloto, together worth £ 3 million, were unsellable.
  • In addition to these were full-length portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, showing that Gainsborough was attracting patronage from the royal family.
  • Beside this group of, in every sense of the word, 'artless' little country girls, I will now set one -- in the best sense of the word -- 'artful' little country girl, -- a sketch by Gainsborough. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
  • Initially, he worked in the manner of Gainsborough, but slowly developed his own style of conveying nature and humble subjects so as to appear spontaneous and without what he called ‘fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee’.
  • Short comedies burlesquing cinema trends tickled insiders and sophisticates; while mainstream Gainsborough features like Blighty and The Constant Nymph achieved considerable box-office success.
  • The gallery has an impressive array of old masters on display, including works by Rembrandt, Poussin, Rubens, Canaletto and Gainsborough.
  • They're marvellous pictures in the tradition of Gainsborough.
  • These burlesques were made independently until Michael Balcon offered to produce them through Gainsborough Pictures.
  • Gainsborough chose to exhibit works that presented an alternative to Reynolds' argument.
  • The following year, Sydney Box was appointed head of Gainsborough Pictures, on the assumption that he would work similar magic on the ailing studio - but The Seventh Veil turned out to be an unrepeatable one-off.
  • Venus flanked a somewhat prim peeress by Hoppner; a landscape that smacked of Gainsborough was the companion of a dauby moonlight, that must have figured in the last exhibition; and insipid Roman matrons by Henrietta Temple A Love Story
  • If you can't laugh at Anthony van Dyck's boozed-up cavaliers, Thomas Gainsborough's cadaverous, blue-faced debutantes or Damien Hirst's 13-foot shark in a few thousand gallons of formaldehyde, you're really missing out on some great fun. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
  • The atmosphere that prevailed was redolent of a Gainsborough studio set for a rumbustious period drama.
  • The paintings, Madam Bacelli by Thomas Gainsborough, worth 2.5m, and The Scene of Florence by Bernado Belloto, worth 1.27m, have not been seen since, but are considered unsellable.
  • The point is that if one wants to find what sets Gainsborough apart from his contemporaries, even the academic Reynolds, it is best to look beyond iconological content.

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