Bidspirit auction | A Pair of Framed Decorative
A Pair of Framed Decorative Prints After Thomas Gainsborough and Thomas Lawrence - This pair of decorative works consists of 20th-century reproduction prints on textured board or canvas, designed to simulate the appearance of original oil paintings. The subjects are iconic 18th-century English portraits: Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy and Thomas Lawrence’s Pinkie. The works feature smooth, uniform surfaces with no discernible impasto or individual brushwork. No signatures or dates are visible on the face of the works. Each print is housed in a matching, multi-tiered gilt-finished molded frame. The frames bear contemporary inventory stickers, including a white rectangular sticker with the characters 0689 and small circular stickers in green and yellow. 29 x 20 inches.