Thomas Gainsborough, 1787 - A Boy with a Cat—Morning - fine art print

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The canvas had as its pendant a painting of two children, one seated and one standing, warming themselves before a cottage fire. The latter has disappeared but its composition is known from an 1809 mezzotint engraving. The pair formed part of a group of rustic paintings of working-class children much admired in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as "fancy pictures." Jack Hill, shown here, was a professional beggar whom Gainsborough took into his house as a model.

The work of art was created by Thomas Gainsborough. The beyond 230 years old original has the following size: 59 1/4 x 47 1/2 in (150,5 x 120,7 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the artpiece. This artwork belongs to the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (public domain). Besides, the artpiece has the creditline: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889. Moreover, alignment is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Thomas Gainsborough was a painter, whose artistic style can mainly be classified as Rococo. The painter lived for a total of 61 years and was born in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom and died in 1788 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.

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