![]() In these prestigious settings, his talents could compete with the work of his contemporaries and a notorious rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds developed. Soon after, in 1761, he began to exhibit in London at the recently formed Society of Artists, and later, from 1769, at the Royal Academy. He had moved there in 1759 after settling his affairs in Ipswich, and quickly made a name for himself as a fashionable portraitist. ![]() By that time, Gainsborough had established himself as the leading portraitist in Georgian Bath. Clement Tudway (Philadelphia Museum of Art), for which a payment is recorded in July of that year. This exquisite portrait of an unidentified woman has been dated by Hugh Belsey to circa 1773, based on its similarity to Gainsborough’s portrait of Mrs. Whitechapel Art Gallery: Spring Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, 1906, p. ![]() Her dress is a miracle of colour in paint. There is no sense of a “sitter” here, simply her own special unique personality looks out at us for all ages with an almost uncanny vividness. ![]()
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