According to Ovid's ' Metamorphoses' (Book III, 345-510), Narcissus was the beautiful son of a nymph who spurned the many potential lovers who pursued him because of his beauty. He was condemned to fall in love with his own reflection. Here, Narcissus gaze ...

The figures within this landscape scene do not relate to a specific story. The figures appear to derive from a work by Rosa entitled ' The Crucifixion of Polycrates' (Chicago, Art Institute). Although once considered to be by Rosa himself, it is now attributed to a later imitator working in his style. An attribution to Filippo d' Angeli (about 1600
- about 1640) has been suggested.
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This mountainous landscape bathed in warm sunlight is close in style to the Italianate landscapes of Jan Both (about 1615
- 1652).
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Christ is shown after the Deposition from the Cross, with the Virgin standing in the centre, the Magdalen at Christ's feet, & Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus at his head. This is a fragment of a small panel, probably from a predella. The original compo ...

Create your own bespoke print of Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr & Mrs Andrews from our collection. About this painting Mr & Mrs Andrews, about 1750 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1960 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr & Mrs William Hallett (' The Morning Walk') from our collection. About this painting Mr & Mrs William Hallett (' The Morning Walk'), 1785 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1954 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

This portrait is the masterpiece of Gainsborough's early years. It was painted after his return home from London to Suffolk in 1748, soon after the marriage of Robert Andrews of the Auberies & Frances Carter of Ballingdon House, near Sudbury in November of that year. The landscape evokes Robert Andrew's estate, to which his marriage added property. He has a gun under his arm, while his wife sits on an elaborate Rococo-style wooden bench. The painting of Mrs Andrews' lap is unfinished. The space may have been reserved for a child for Mrs Andrews to hold. The painting follows the fashionable convention of the conversation piece, a (usually) small-scale portrait showing two or more people, often out of doors. The emphasis on the landscape here allows Gainsborough to display his skills as a painter of convincingly changing weather & naturalistic scenery, still a novelty at this time. ...

William Thomas Lewis (1748
- 1811) was an actor. He is shown in Mrs Inchbald's play, produced at Covent Garden on 22 May 1787,
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This portrait is the masterpiece of Gainsborough's early years. It was painted after his return home from London to Suffolk in 1748, soon after the marriage of Robert Andrews of the Auberies & Frances Carter of Ballingdon House, near Sudbury in November of that year. The landscape evokes Robert Andrew's estate, to which his marriage added property. He has a gun under his arm, while his wife sits on an elaborate Rococo-style wooden bench. The painting of Mrs Andrews' lap is unfinished. The space may have been reserved for a child for Mrs Andrews to hold. The painting follows the fashionable convention of the conversation piece, a (usually) small-scale portrait showing two or more people, often out of doors. The emphasis on the landscape here allows Gainsborough to display his skills as a painter of convincingly changing weather & naturalistic scenery, still a novelty at this time. ...

The sitter is Mary (died 1788), daughter of Alexander Ramsay of Jamaica, who married Richard Oswald in 1750. He bought the estate of Auchincruive near Ayr in the 1750s. The costume & hair-style suggest a date in the first half of the 1760s. It is unusua ...