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Artists Daughter Mary
Bequeathed by Sir Otto Beit 1945
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<p>Gainsborough was very fond of his two daughters and painted them frequently from childhood into their late twenties. Concerned for their future, he took care to ensure that they were well educated, sending them to an exclusive boarding school in Chelsea and tutoring them in drawing and landscape painting. A few years after this portrait was made, Mary entered into a disastrous marriage with the celebrated oboeist, Johann Christian Fischer, an associate of her father. In later life she lived with her younger sister Margaret, although by then she suffered from severe mental illness.</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
1 December 2005 – 4 June 2006
2006-06-04
1 December 2005 – 26 February 2006
2006-02-26
2005-12-01
Staatliche Museen Kassel (Kassel, Germany)
26 March 2006 – 4 June 2006
2006-06-04
2006-03-26
Museum der bildenden Künste (Leipzig, Germany)
2005-12-01
3 x Tischbein - and European Painting around 1800
Loan-out
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
1 May 2012 – 31 July 2012
2012-07-31
1 May 2012 – 31 July 2012
2012-07-31
2012-05-01
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
2012-05-01
The Imaginary Museum
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
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
2025-05-01
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2025-05-01
National Gallery Bicentenary
Loan-out
The Artist’s Daughter Mary
support: 775 × 648 mm
frame: 1000 × 878 × 128 mm

	
Bequeathed by Sir Otto Beit 1945
<p>Gainsborough was very fond of his two daughters and painted them frequently from childhood into their late twenties. Concerned for their future, he took care to ensure that they were well educated, sending them to an exclusive boarding school in Chelsea and tutoring them in drawing and landscape painting. A few years after this portrait was made, Mary entered into a disastrous marriage with the celebrated oboeist, Johann Christian Fischer, an associate of her father. In later life she lived with her younger sister Margaret, although by then she suffered from severe mental illness.</p>

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