Mrs. Sarah Siddons
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · 1785 · black chalk with extensive stump work with traces of white gouache
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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Mrs. Sarah Siddons is a CC0 drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788), dated 1785. Black chalk with extensive stump work with traces of white gouache. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Mrs. Sarah Siddons” (1785) is either a portrait of a fashionable sitter or a landscape Gainsborough assembled from outdoor studies.
About the artist
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was an English painter of portraits and landscapes. The sitters are fashionable. The landscapes were often invented from studies rather than painted as one view.
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