Thomas Gainsborough · 1770s

Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow

Name: Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow by Thomas Gainsborough
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SKU: portrait-of-a-young-woman-called-miss-sparrow
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Public-domain work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open access collection.

Up to 13 × 16 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow

Gainsborough's portrait of a young Englishwoman traditionally identified as Miss Sparrow, painted in his Bath or London years in the loose late style — silk-blue gown, light-touched hair, the eye drawn straight to the open expression of the sitter. The exact identity of Miss Sparrow has never been firmly established; the portrait survives as one of Gainsborough's most charming small society works.

About the artist

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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