# Portrait of a Lady in Blue [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Lady in Blue 1779-81 Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg The vocation of Gainsborough, who spent most of his life outside the British capital, was landscape painting. In the studio he compiled real-life impressions, garnered during frequent strolls, into decorative compositions that recall the painted fantasies of French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau. Gainsborogh became famous for his portraits, however, which were prized especially for the exquisite consonance of their colours. This painting, whose subject is unknown, displays the artist's characteristic harmonious blend of hues, here white and blue. ## Related artworks - [Conversation in a Park]() - [Elizabeth and Thomas Linley]() - [Elizabeth Wrottesly]() - [Isaac Henrique Sequeira]() - [Johann Christian Bach]() - [Johann Christian Fischer]() - [Lady Alston]() - [Lady Bate-Dudley]() - [Landscape in Suffolk]() - [Mary, Countess of Howe]() - [Master John Heathcote]() - [Mr and Mrs Andrews]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()