John, 4th Earl of Darnley
Thomas Gainsborough · 1785 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
John, 4th Earl of Darnley is a public-domain painting by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1785. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“John, 4th Earl of Darnley” (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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