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    568. THE MAGIC OF GAINSBOROUGH'S PORTRAITS

    568. THE MAGIC OF GAINSBOROUGH'S PORTRAITS

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    *This lecture was inspired by the recent exhibition on Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture at the Frick Collection.

    Thomas Gainsborough stands out from the many other British portraitists of the seventeenth century. Although similarly adept at painting the faces and fashion of high society, he is singular in the way he extracted the fullness of his sitters’ characters, giving them an inner life. His love of the natural is imbued in his portraits as well as in the landscapes he often painted as background settings for them. Rather than masquerading in fancy or historical dress, his sitters wear contemporary clothing, the details of which he devotedly painted himself rather than relegating the finishing work to a studio assistant. Although they belong to a bygone world, his sitters come to life in his portraits, magically inviting us to become acquainted with them today.

    Details:
    The Magic of Gainsborough's Portraits
    Professor Carol Forman Tabler
    1 session: Thursday, June 18
    10:00 – 12 noon 
    Fee: $30

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Carol Forman Tabler

    Carol Forman Tabler, noted art historian, holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. Her dissertation focused on the French nineteenth-century artist Antoine Vollon, with whom she came into contact while writing the European section of the catalogue for the Heckscher Museum’s collection. Over the years she has organized exhibitions at the museum, serving as a trustee and member of the Collection Stewardship Committee there. Her scholarship on Vollon has led to conference presentations and publication opportunities in books, journals, and exhibition catalogues, including an e-journal article available to read on the web. In 2005 she wrote the essay for a major solo exhibition on Vollon at the Wildenstein Gallery in NewYork. In 2015 she donated one of Vollon’s finest drawings to the Frick Collection in New York and was invited to present a live-streamed, archived lecture on the artist, still available to view on the Frick’s website. She considers herself a Francophile, specializing in the French nineteenth century, although her broad university-level teaching experience over the years has inevitably expanded on that concentration.

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Summer 2026
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Thursday, 10:00 – 12 noon
    Date(s)
    Jun 18, 2026