Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg

Painting by Thomas Gainsborough

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1777–1778
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	76.5 cm × 63.2 cm (30.1 in × 24.9 in)
Location	Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Philip James de Loutherbourg is a portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough of the French-born painter and set designer Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg.

Born in Strasbourg, Loutherbourg settled in London in 1770 and became noted for his set designs at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as well as his landscape paintings, produced in an early romantic style. Gainsborough's portrait was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1778 at Somerset House. It is today in the collection of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, having been part of the Bourgeois Bequest in 1811. A later self-portrait by Loutherbourg it now in the National Portrait Gallery.

References

Hamilton, James. Gainsborough: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2017.
Murray, Christopher John. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
Rosenthal, Michael & Myrone, Martin. Thomas Gainsborough. Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

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Paintings	Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (1748) Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated (1748) Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1757) Gypsy works (including The Gipsies et al.) The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767) The Blue Boy (c. 1770) Maria, Lady Eardley (c. 1770) Portrait of David Garrick (1770) Woman in Blue (c. 1770–1780) Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham (1777) Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78) Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas (c. 1780) Portrait of Admiral Rodney (1783) Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich (1783) Portrait of Lord Cornwallis (1783) Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785) The Market Cart (1786) Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1785–1787) Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) Cottage Door works (including The Woodcutter's Return et al.)
Museums	Gainsborough's House
Related	Humphrey Gainsborough (brother) Kitty (1945 film) Gainsborough (crater)

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Paintings	Landscape with Animals (1767) Moonlight (1777) Warley Camp (1780) A View near Matlock, Derbyshire (1785) The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1788) The Grand Attack on Valenciennes (1794) Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June (1795) A Distant Hail-Storm Coming On (1799) Coalbrookdale by Night (1801) The Battle of Alexandria (1802) The Capture of the Chevrette (1802) An Avalanche in the Alps (1803)
Related	Charles-André van Loo (master) Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (master) Rococo Romanticism Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Eidophusikon Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg

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