The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly Thomas Gainsborough 1756 Oil on canvas 113.5 x 105 cm
This is perhaps Gainsborough's earliest portrait of his two daughters Mary and Margaret; some six others are known. Mary was baptised on 3 February 1750 (taking the same name as a daughter who died two years earlier) and Margaret was baptised on 22 August 1751.
The portrait was probably painted in Ipswich in the mid-1750s and left unfinished.
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