Portrait of David Garrick

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Portrait of David Garrick

Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1770
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait
Location	National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of David Garrick is a 1770 painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. A half-length portrait of the celebrated English actor-manager David Garrick it was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.^[1] ^[2] Diarist Horace Walpole described it as "very like".^[3] Garrick, owner and star performer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was at the height of his fame when Gainsborough painted him. It was painted in Bath.^[4]

Today it is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.^[5]

References

Hamilton, James. Gainsborough: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2017.
Kendall, Alan. David Garrick: A Biography. Harrap, 1985.
Whitley, William Thomas. Thomas Gainsborough. Smith, Elder & Company, 1915.
Woodall, Joanna. Portraiture: Facing the Subject. Manchester University Press, 15 Mar 1997.

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Paintings	Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (1748) Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated (1748) Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1757) Gypsy works (including The Gipsies et al.) The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767) The Blue Boy (c. 1770) Maria, Lady Eardley (c. 1770) Portrait of David Garrick (1770) Woman in Blue (c. 1770–1780) Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham (1777) Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78) Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas (c. 1780) Portrait of Admiral Rodney (1783) Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich (1783) Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785) The Market Cart (1786) Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1785–1787) Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) Cottage Door works (including The Woodcutter's Return et al.)
Museums	Gainsborough's House
Related	Humphrey Gainsborough (brother) Kitty (1945 film) Gainsborough (crater)

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