拍品专文
Thomas Gainsborough, English (1727-1788)
Lifelong friends, Gainsborough originally met Mrs. Sheridan (née Linley) while he studied music under the tutelage of her father, a concertmaster in Bath. Her husband, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was a liberal politician and the noted playwright of The Rivals and The School for Scandal.
Originally in the collection of Andrew W. Mellon, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1785-1787) is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Lifelong friends, Gainsborough originally met Mrs. Sheridan (née Linley) while he studied music under the tutelage of her father, a concertmaster in Bath. Her husband, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was a liberal politician and the noted playwright of The Rivals and The School for Scandal.
Originally in the collection of Andrew W. Mellon, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1785-1787) is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.