# Seashore with Fishermen, in Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough painted this in about 1781/1782, aged about 54. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Fishermen push a boat out from a rocky shore while others in the foreground haul a net through the surf, beneath a towering pale cliff and a sky of drifting lavender cloud.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1781/1782
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 101.9 x 127.6 cm (40 1/8 x 50 1/4 in.) framed: 124.5 x 149.9 x 7 cm (49 x 59 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.17.121
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Gainsborough](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-gainsborough), English, 1727–1788

Gainsborough trained in London with the French engraver Hubert Gravelot, then built his career as a portraitist first in Suffolk and later in fashionable Bath before moving to London in 1774.

4 works in the collection.

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