Portraiture in Britain – Gainsborough, Zoffany, Romney, Raeburn, Lawrence and Wilkie

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, c,1750

Thomas Gainsborough, John Plampin, c,1752

Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of a Woman, Possibly of the Lloyd Family, 1750

Thomas Gainsborough, Lady Ligonier, 1770

Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770

"It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm, mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish white, and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support or set off these warm colours; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colour will be sufficient. Let this conduct be reversed; let the light be cold, and the surrounding colour warm, as we often see in the works of the Roman and Florentine painters, and it will be out of the power of art, even in the hands of Rubens and Titian, to make a picture splendid and harmonious.“ Sir Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough, The Honourable Mrs, Graham, 1775

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk'), 1785

Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1787

Francis Cotes, Portrait of Paul Sandby, 1759

Johann Zoffany, Self-Portrait as David with the Head of Goliath, 1759

Johann Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Children, 1765

Johann Zoffany, The Tribuna of the Uffizi,

Johann Zoffany, Sir Brooke Boothby, 1781

Johann Zoffany, The Apotheosis Of Penelope Boothby, 1784

Johann Zoffany, Colonel Maudent’s Cock Match,

George Romney, The Beaumont Family, 1777

George Romney, A Lady in a Brown Dress: 'The Parson's Daughter ' 1782

George Romney, Lady Hamilton as Circe, 1782

George Romney, Emma, as 'The Spinstress’,

Sir Henry Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, c.1790

Sir Henry Raeburn, Robert and Ronald Ferguson, ‘The Archers’,

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers

Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik,

Sir Henry Raeburn, Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry, 1812

Sir Henry Raeburn, Mrs. Robert Scott Moncrieff, 1814

Sir Henry Raeburn, Boy and Rabbit, 1814

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Queen Charlotte, 1790

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sarah Moulton; ‘Pinkie’ 1794

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1814

Sir Thomas Lawrence, The Duke of Wellington, on Copenhagen 1818

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Goerge IV, 1820

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Goerge IV in his Coronation Robes, 1820

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Goerge IV, 1822

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Margaret, Countess of Blessington, 1822

Sir Thomas Lawrence, The Fullerton Sisters, 1824

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Princess Sophia 1825

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Walter Scott, 1827

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Princess Dorothea von Lieven 1813

Sir Thomas Lawrence, The Prince Regent 1814

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Maria, Lady Callcott 1819

David Wilkie, William Chalmers Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella, 1804

David Wilkie, Kin g George IV in a Kilt 1822

David Wilkie, The Artist’s Niece, Sophia Wilkie, 1829

David Wilkie, The First Council of Queen Victoria, 1838

Franz Xavier Winterhalter, The 1 st May 1851, 1851