Portrait of John Langston, Esquire, of Sarsden
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
Portrait of John Langston, Esquire, of Sarsden is a public-domain painting by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1787. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Portrait of John Langston, Esquire, of Sarsden” (1787) 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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