A man called Mr. Wood, the dancing master

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1757

Height:

76.2 cm  (30 in.)

Width:

62.9 cm  (24 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Formal portrait of dancing master John Wood of Ipswich, England in aristocratic attire. He holds a scroll (rolled piece of music?) under his arm.

People as subjects

Wood, John (1718-1783) (Dancer)

Iconclass

48C8311
portrait of dancer
49A
education
43C9
dancing

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Belsey, Hugh. "Thomas Gainsborough as an Ipswich musician, a collector of prints and a caricaturist", East Anglia's history: Studies in honour of Norman Scarfe, ed. by Christopher Harper-Bill, et al. (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002) 300.

RIdIM record id

6262