The Connecticut museum exhibits stellar drawings from its holdings, spanning centuries and featuring such artists as Gainsborough, Ingres, Courbet, Degas, Picasso and Miró.

Thomas Gainsborough was a great master of English portraiture who achieved success during his lifetime. Although portrait painting had a practical function in building the status and reputation of ...

sight: 36 x 28 inches, canvas: 35-1/2 x 27-5/8 inches framed: 41-1/2 x 33-1/2 inches ...

This family portrait is the largest painting in Bath by Bath's greatest artist, Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough moved to Bath from Ipswich in the late 1750s and took up residence by the Abbey.