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    Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to employ cottages as a major subject, in what has become known as his "Cottage Door" paintings, painted...
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    Sensation & Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door, ed. Ann Bermingham (Yale University Press, 2005) Thomas Gainsborough's First Self-portrait, Stephen...
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    Gainsborough's House is the birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough. It is now a museum and gallery, located at 46 Gainsborough...
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    were designed by Gainsborough, together with other early locks from Sonning to Maidenhead (1772–73). A blue plaque in Gainsborough's honour can be found...
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    previously unattributed works, a landscape and a portrait of Joseph Gape, as being by Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough's family. Gainsborough's House Society,...
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  • 2000 ISBN 978-0300080391 Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door, 2005 ISBN 978-0300110029 List of Harvard University people List...
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    comfortable rooms in the house, its book-lined walls are only interrupted by Gainsborough's full-length portrait of the Duchess of Richmond, and various other masterpieces...
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    Wooded landscape with gipsies round a camp fire (category Landscape paintings by Thomas Gainsborough)
    structured to Gainsborough's "Cottage Door" series of paintings, and is a similar family group portrait. Although lacking the series' eponymous cottage, the landscape...
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  • windows and doors, and gauged brick strings and arches". Sorby made major changes to the structure. The Building News described the new works: The architect...
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    Chatsworth House (category Thomas Archer buildings)
    circle of literary and political friends. Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds would paint her; the Gainsborough painting would be disposed of by the 5th...
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    Rosenquist: Works on Paper from the NAC's Permanent Collection, National Arts Club. 19 October 2014 – 4 January 2015: Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and the...
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    House, one which was crafted by Peter Scheemakers. Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and George Romney, mostly of family members, adorn...
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    watercolours and drawings. One of the most unusual objects on display is Thomas Gainsborough's experimental showbox with its back-lit landscapes, which he painted...
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    Academy; a classicism based on the High Renaissance prevailed, with Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds becoming two of England's most treasured artists...
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  • 16 May: The German American "Napoleon of crime" Adam Worth steals Gainsborough's Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Agnew's gallery in...
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    at his home, Ivy Cottage, in Highgate, north London. Mathews managed to secure a large number of pictures from the collection of Thomas Harris, who had...
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    its club, now the London Buddhist Vihara; its inn, The Tabard, and next door its shop, the Bedford Park Stores; and its Chiswick School of Art, now replaced...
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    painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, who also specialised in clothing their subjects in an eye-catching manner. Gainsborough's Blue Boy...
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    William B. Boulton, Thomas Gainsborough: His Life, Work, Friends, and Sitters (Kessinger, 2006), page 194 <A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds...
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    Children c.1747 Thomas Gainsborough 1727–88 A view in Suffolk c.1746 Mrs Christopher Horton (1743–1808) later Duchess of Cumberland 1766 The Cottage Girl 1785...
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    cast iron and stained glass. This suite of rooms was equipped with folding doors which when opened created an enfilade of eight rooms terminating in the...
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    Art theft (category Stolen works of art)
    is centered on a fictional theft of Da Vinci works, specifically, the Mona Lisa. Ian Rankin's novel Doors Open centers on an art heist organised by a bored...
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    des richesses. Nobody plagues me by besieging my doors in carriages, and upon pillions to see my cottage. After all, however, it is very strange how people...
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    are Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), George Stubbs (1724–1806), and Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788). Pictorial satirist William Hogarth pioneered Western...
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    pubs named after Militia or rifle volunteers etc. Woodman or Woodman's Cottage Inn. Woolpack Banstead, Surrey and Wisbech, Isle of Ely. (now closed) A...
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    Elmfield College; allowed trustees to plan to enlarge the school; Rose Cottage was rented and its use authorised as a dormitory house (Booth: 29). R....
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    condemning the cottage in the late 1970s – and an inside toilet. The original outside privy and washhouse can still be viewed. The cottage is named after...
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    1630–1640 Rembrandt – The Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross, 1634–35 Thomas Gainsborough - Drawing of a woman with a rose, 1763–1765 J. M. W. Turner - Watercolour...
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    District General Hospital opened in 1913 as a cottage hospital; it underwent major redevelopment works in 1939, was taken over by the National Health...
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    entrance into Kew Gardens, to the green's west Portico entrance to Cambridge Cottage Kew Bridge Kew Cricket Club Kew Gardens St Anne's Church, Kew Westerley...
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