Thomas Gainsborough, Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy, 1777, oil on canvas. The two dogs in this painting
Thomas Gainsborough, Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy, 1777, oil on canvas. The two dogs in this painting belonged to the musician Carl Friedrich Abel, the last of the great viola da gamba virtuosi. Abel was one of a trio of German composers and musicians, with Johann Fischer and Johann Christian Bach, who dominated the music scene in England in the mid-eighteenth century. He and Gainsborough probably first met in Bath in the early 1760s, and became close friends. Gainsborough, himself an accomplished musician, bought one of Abel’s most prized instruments and the two often played together. The artist probably presented this painting to Abel in exchange for lessons on the instrument http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gainsborough-pomeranian-bitch-and-puppy-n05844 -- source link
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