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Margaret Gainsborough gleaning

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Margaret Gainsborough gleaning

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Margaret Gainsborough (1752–1820) is shown in peasant costume as a gleaner. This is the surviving half of a double portrait of Gainsborough's two daughters, probably painted in the late 1750s, which was intended as both portrait and 'fancy picture'.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

Margaret Gainsborough gleaning

Date

late 1750s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73 x W 63 cm

Accession number

WA1975.72

Acquisition method

Purchased with the assistance of a gift in memory of Helen, Henry and Marius Winslow and the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1975

Work type

Painting

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Thomas Gainsborough

1727–1788

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