Anne Elizabeth Phipps (née Cholmley), Baroness Mulgrave (1769-1788) wife of 2nd Baron Mulgrave

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

One of the founders of the 18th-century British landscape school, Thomas Gainsborough was also the creator of the so-called ‘fancy picture’, depicting rustic figures - usually children - posed in rural settings. Born in Suffolk, he studied in London from about 1739 to 1748 under the French painter and engraver Hubert Gravelot and the British painter Francis Hayman at the St Martin’s Lane Academy. Gainsborough returned to Suffolk in 1748, where he worked as a landscape and portrait painter until 1759, before moving to Bath. There he quickly developed into a much sought-after society painter. In 1774, he moved to London where he exhibited his work in his studio. He died in London in 1788.

People

Anne Elizabeth (née Cholmley), Baroness Mulgrave Phipps (1769 - 1788)

Places

Subjects

female portrait, 18th century costume

Materials & Techniques

etching

Artist

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Charles Albert Waltner (1846 - 1925)

Title

Anne Elizabeth Phipps (née Cholmley), Baroness Mulgrave (1769-1788) wife of 2nd Baron Mulgrave

Date

1 January 1886

Medium

Etching

Acquisition

Presented by Mrs Barnes, April 1954

GAC number

2691