The Frick Collection

This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to see what the Financial Times calls a "fabulous jewel box of a show" 👒✨

"Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture" is the Frick’s first exhibition dedicated to the English artist and the first devoted to his portraiture ever held in New York. It brings together more than two dozen of Gainsborough’s greatest portraits from across North America and the United Kingdom, representing every stage of his period-defining career. You don’t want to miss it!

The show is up through Monday, May 25, and the museum is open all weekend, including Memorial Day. Learn more and plan your visit at frick.org 🎟️
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), Mary, Countess Howe, 1763–64, oil on canvas, English Heritage, Kenwood House, London; The Iveagh Bequest; all photos by George Koelle

Gainsborough, Mrs. Fitzherbert, ca. 1784, oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, photocourtesy the Legion of Honor

Gainsborough, Bernard Howard, Later 12th Duke of Norfolk, 1788, oil on canvas, His Grace, the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, Sussex

Gainsborough, Mrs. Sheridan, probably 1783, altered between 1785 and 1787, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Happy birthday to Thomas Gainsborough, in 1727! 🎂✨

This work, on loan from the Royal Academy of Arts, is the last of his self-portraits, painted about a year before he died. Declaring his wishes for the legacy of his image, Gainsborough asserted that no posthumous "plaster cast, model, or likeness" be taken of him. However, he allowed for an engraving to be made after this portrait, which exemplifies his art in the deft, loose brushwork that became his signature.

There are only two weekends left to see “Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture”—don’t miss it! Plan your visit today at frick.org/visit 🎟️
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1787, oil on canvas © Royal Academy of Arts, London, photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited; photo: George Koelle