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Painting
Mrs. William Provis of Bath
Thomas R. A. Gainsborough, (Sudbury, England, 1727 - 1788, London)
Gainsborough, Thomas R. A.
England
1727 - 1788
Male
29 1/2 x 24 in. (74.9 x 61 cm)
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1766
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1766
1600-1800, 18th century, George Eastman Collection, paintings, portraits, women
Painting
A founding member of the Royal Academy, Thomas R. A. Gainsborough was a premier 18th-century English portraitist whose upward trajectory to fame began with a strategic move to Bath, a town with many portrait-commissioning British gentry. This particular portrait captures Bath resident Ann Pigott in her lonely and isolated youth. At 17, she married a much older William Provis and was left alone and childless while he lived at his country estate. As British gentry were selling family art collections in face of financial strain from estate taxes implemented in 1894, newly-wealthy Americans were building art collections. George Eastman acquired this portrait in 1912 in that manner and later bequeathed it to the University of Rochester.[
Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
1978.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
11/2/2000
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78.1DI#2
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11/6/2012
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11/27/2017
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