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GAILLOT Interior of Hall in Palazzo Ducalo, S. Laz- y.aro in Venice, New Pinakothek, Munich ; Convent S. Martino in Piedmont (1857), National Gallery, Berlin ; Devotees before Shrine on Spanish Coast (1837), Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Brockhaus, vii. 453 ; Faber, iv. L'4G ; Miiller, 100. GAILLOT, BERNARD, born at Versailles, Feb. 17, 1780, died in Paris, June 17, 1847. History painter, pupil of David. Medal, 2d class, 1S17. AYorks : Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (1817); Conversion of St. Au- gustine (1810), Vision of St. Monica (1822), Prefecture de la Seine, Paris ; St. Louis with the Crown of Thorns (1824), Sens Ca- thedral ; others in Versailles Museum. GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS, born at Slid bury, Suffolk, baptised May 14. 1727, died in Lon- don, Aug. 2, 1788, British school ; went to London in 1741, and became a pupil of Gravelot, the French engrav- er ; then of Francis Hay m an, with whom he studied drawing. After an un- successful struggle as a portrait and laud- scape painter in London, he returned home in 1744 or 1745, and in 17(iO settled in Bath, where he devoted himself chiefly to portraiture ; in 1774 he went again to Lon- don, and won such a reputation that he was considered the rival of Keynolds in portrait, and of "Wilson in landscape, painting. In 17GG he became a member of the Society of Artists, and he was one of the foundation members (1708) of the Royal Academy. Sir Joshua Keynolds observes of him : " Whether he most excelled in portraits, landscapes, or fancy pictures, it is difficult to determine," and Buskin calls him "the purest colourist of the English school." His pictures com- mand high prices. Works : Market Cart, Watering Place (2), Huxidora, liuxtit- Children, The Brook, and portraits of Mrs. Siddoiw, Balph Schomberg, Edward Orpin the Parish Clerk, Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart,, Na- tional Gallery, London ; Lord Amherst, G. Coleman, Marquis Cornwallis, National Por- trait Gallery; Jiluc Boy (1779), G'ottaye Door, Peasant's Family, Fisherman's Fam- ily, Grosvenor House ; Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Tickell, Mr. Linley and his Grandsons Samuel and Thomas, J. P. Loutherbourg, R.A., Mrs. Moody and her Children, Dul- wich Gallery ; Hon. Mrs. Graham, National Gallery, Edinburgh ; Miss Haverneld, Por- trait of a Lad}', Hertford House ; portrait of himself, Royal Academy ; Daughters of George III., sketch for Blue Boy, South Kensington Museum ; portrait of his wife, V'. Sharpc ; portrait of himself, of Lady Mary Bowlby, and Gainsborough Dupont, George Richmond, R. A. ; Cows in Meadow, Bridge water House; Young Girl, Stafford House ; Family of Country People, Wynn Ellis Collection ; Landscape, Baring Collec- tion ; Johann Christian Fischer the com- poser, Col. St. Leger, and others, Hamp- ton Court ; Miss McGill, Cobham Hall ; two portraits, Arundel Castle ; Landscape, Petworth; Duke of Argyll (1770); Jlar- M*l "Wagon, Lord Tweedmouth ; John Duke of Bedford, Blenheim ; Cattle in Land- I scape, Bowood ; Peasants going to Market, Stourhead House ; Duke and Duchess of Montague, Duckwith Palace ; Landscapes with Cattle (2), Belvoir Castle ; Lady Chat- ham, Orwell Park ; Duchess of Devonshire (1775), Earl Spencer, Althorp ; Landscape, Historical Society, New York. Other of the 220 portraits by him, are : George III. (8), Pitt (7), Garrick (5), Lord Chan- cellor Camden, Sir William Blackstone, Johnson, Sterne, Richardson, Clive, Burke, Sheridan, Wiudham, Franklin, Canning, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady Ver- non, Lady Maynard, and the Bishops of Worcester and Ferns. A collection of 21(i of Gainsborough's works were exhibited at the Grosveuor Gallery, London, in 1885. Pratt, Life (London, 1788); Thickuesse, Life (London, 1788); Fulcher, Life (London, 104