Portrait of Johann Christian Bach?

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788)


Item type:
painting
Height:
76.8 cm  (30 1/4 in.)
Width:
64.1 cm  (25 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Cincinnati Art Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: 1983.504]

Description

This subject of this portrait has been variously identified as Benjamin Franklin, the English physician David Middleton, and more recently as a likeness of Johann Christian Bach (see article by Reis).

People as subjects

Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) (Composer portrait)

Iconclass

48C713
portrait of composer

Image URLs

image link 1
Cincinnati Art Museum data

Bibliographic references

Reis, Joan S. "A third Gainsborough portrait of Johann Christian Bach?", The musical quarterly 74/2 (1990) 295-302. RILM 1990-10719.

Schuetze, George C. Convergences in music and art: A bibliographic study (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2005) 193, fig. 4.68. ISBN 9780899901305. RILM 2005-12224.

RIdIM record id

4733