Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Title:: Portrait of a Young Man with Powdered Hair
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 3 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (7.9 x 7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Signed, lower right: "TG" (G incomplete); on verso: "by T.Gainsborough his own portrait"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B2001.2.187
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: costume | portrait | man | Georgian | male | oval
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
Publications:: Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after old masters, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 909, cat. 985, NJ18.G16 B453 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38692