![]() The exhibitions helped him enhance his reputation, and he was invited to become a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1769. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members) and from 1769 he submitted works to the Royal Academy's annual exhibitions. There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a fashionable clientele. ![]() In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath, living at number 17 The Circus. Huntington Library, San Marino, California Toward the end of his time in Ipswich, he painted a self-portrait, now in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity. Commissions for portraits increased, but his clients included mainly local merchants and squires. In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, Mary ("Molly", 1750–1826) and Margaret ("Peggy", 1751–1820), moved to Ipswich. John Chafy Playing a Violoncello in a Landscape (c.1750–1752 Tate Gallery, London). While still in Suffolk, Gainsborough painted a portrait of The Rev. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on painting portraits. The artist's work, then mostly consisting of landscape paintings, was not selling well. In 1746, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who had settled a £200 annuity on her. He assisted Francis Hayman in the decoration of the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens, and contributed one image to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Gainsborough was allowed to leave home in 1740 to study art in London, where he trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot but became associated with William Hogarth and his school. When he was still a boy he impressed his father with his drawing and painting skills, and by the time he was ten years old he had almost certainly painted heads and small landscapes, including a miniature self-portrait. The building still survives and is now a house-museum dedicated to his life and art. ![]() He later resided there, following the death of his father in 1748 and before his move to Ipswich. The artist spent his childhood at what is now Gainsborough's House, on Gainsborough Street, Sudbury. One of Gainsborough's brothers, Humphrey, had a faculty for mechanics and was said to have invented the method of condensing steam in a separate vessel, which was of great service to James Watt another brother, John, was known as Scheming Jack because of his passion for designing curiosities. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife Mary, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs. At the time, his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk (1745–46), Yale Center for British Art. ![]()
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