Thomas Gainsborough, 1778 - Portrait of James Christie (1730 - 1803) - fine art print

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This more than 240 year-old piece of art named Portrait of James Christie (1730 - 1803) was painted by the rococo painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1778. The piece of art had the size: 127,6 × 102,2 cm (50 1/4 × 40 1/4 in) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. The artpiece can be viewed in in the digital collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum. The classic art public domain piece of art is being provided with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.The creditline of the artpiece is the following: . In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Thomas Gainsborough was a male painter of British nationality, whose artistic style can primarily be attributed to Rococo. The artist was born in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom and passed away at the age of 61 in 1788.

What does the original artwork description of the The J. Paul Getty Museum state about the 18th century work of art from the painter Thomas Gainsborough? (© Copyright - The J. Paul Getty Museum - www.getty.edu)

A charming and persuasive speaker, James Christie founded the fine arts auction house in London that still bears his name. He was a close friend and neighbor of Thomas Gainsborough, who painted this portrait. Gainsborough depicted the cultivated auctioneer leaning on one of the artist's own landscape paintings and holding a piece of paper in his right hand, perhaps an auction list. Christie wears a sober brown frock suit, a white linen shirt, and a formal wig. On the little finger of his left hand is a signet ring, and two pendant seals dangle from watches worn about his waist. His dress and jewelry befit a cosmopolitan English gentleman of the 1770s.

The Portrait of James Christie hung in a place of honor at Christie's auction house in London. The auction house was a gathering place for collectors, dealers, and fashionable society. The portrait immortalized the auctioneer and perpetuated his association with Gainsborough, who was one of England's most famous portrait painters.

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