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Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, northeast London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951.
This is a list of films made by the British production company Gainsborough Pictures and its parent company Gaumont British between 1924 and 1950. The Gainsborough brand was first used in 1924, although several films had previously been made by the company's founders under a different name.
The portrait and landscape painter, Thomas Gainsborough is considered one of the most important British artists of the late 18th century. Born at Sudbury, Suffolk, Gainsborough was the youngest son of a cloth merchant.
1727 - 1788. Image: Detail from Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter, about 1748. Gainsborough was, with Reynolds (his main rival), the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century.
This portrait of Mr Robert (1725–1806) and Mrs Frances Andrews (about 1732–1780) is the masterpiece of Gainsborough’s early career. The picture remained with their descendants for over 200 years and was largely unknown until Mr George Andrews lent it to the Gainsborough Bicentenary exhibition at Ipswich in 1927.
Gainsborough's awareness of picture framing is reflected in his unusual practice of featuring a framed painting, generally a 'Gainsborough' landscape, in the background of some of his larger portraits, a device which other artists usually restricted to their conversation pieces.
Gainsborough Pictures was a film studio based in Islington, London, active between 1924 and 1951. Their studios — which were purchased from Famous Players-Lasky when the American company withdrew from producing films in Britain — were demolished in 2002 and replaced by three blocks of upmarket apartments in 2004.
