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Artists Daughter Margaret
Presented by the family of Richard J. Lane 1896
actions: postures and motions
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Gainsborough, Margaret
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<p>Gainsborough’s younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder sister Mary at the parental home in Pall Mall, London.Although he enjoyed a reckless social life, Gainsborough attempted to shield his daughters from the attentions of would-be suitors, declining to ‘make fine trumpery of them, and let them be led away with Vanity, and ever subject to disappointment in the wild Goose chase’. Margaret remained unmarried and lived out the final years her life in Acton, west London, where she cared for her elder sister.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
21 July 1989 – 31 March 2025
2025-03-31
21 July 1989 – 31 March 2025
2025-03-31
1989-07-21
Gainsborough’s House (Sudbury, UK)
1989-07-21
Long loan to Gainsborough's House
Loan-out
19 July 2004 – 27 June 2005
2005-06-27
1 March 2004
2004-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-07-19
Sensibility
Collection based display
26 January 2007 – 30 September 2007
2007-09-30
26 January 2007
2007-01-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-01-26
Family Values
Collection based display
31 March 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
31 March 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
2012-03-31
Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede, Netherlands)
2012-03-31
18th Century British Portraits
Loan-out
22 November 2018 – 5 June 2019
2019-06-05
22 November 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
2018-11-22
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
23 February 2019 – 5 June 2019
2019-06-05
2019-02-23
Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, USA)
http://www.princetonartmuseum.org
2018-11-22
Gainsborough Family Album
Loan-out
30 November 2019 – 1 March 2020
2020-03-01
30 November 2019 – 1 March 2020
2020-03-01
2019-11-30
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
2019-11-30
Thomas Gainsborough
Loan-out
The Artist’s Daughter Margaret
support: 756 × 629 mm
frame: 1010 × 870 × 113 mm
Presented by the family of Richard J. Lane 1896
<p>Gainsborough’s younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder sister Mary at the parental home in Pall Mall, London.Although he enjoyed a reckless social life, Gainsborough attempted to shield his daughters from the attentions of would-be suitors, declining to ‘make fine trumpery of them, and let them be led away with Vanity, and ever subject to disappointment in the wild Goose chase’. Margaret remained unmarried and lived out the final years her life in Acton, west London, where she cared for her elder sister.</p>

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