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《伊丽莎白和玛丽·林利》（Elizabeth and Mary Linley）

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《伊丽莎白和玛丽·林利》
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画作名称：
 Elizabeth and Mary Linley
中文名称：
 伊丽莎白和玛丽·林利
画 家：
 托马斯·庚斯博罗（Thomas Gainsborough）
作品年份：
 c.1772 年（c.1772, retouched 1785）
原作材质：
 布面油画
画作尺寸：
 199 x 153.5 cm
馆藏链接：
 多维茨画廊（Dulwich Picture Gallery）
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　This double portrait of Elizabeth and Mary Linley, is the only known painting depicting both sisters together, each other’s closest companions. Gainsborough moved to Bath in 1759 and became good friends with the Linley family; he did a series of portraits of the Linley family from the late 1760s until 1789. Elizabeth the eldest wears a pale blue underdress and overdress and gazes into the distance, with her hands resting on a guitar. Mary wears a golden brown under and overdress and engages with viewer with a score sheet on her lap.

　The Linley family were a famous musical family known as ‘The Nest of the Nightingales’. Elizabeth was known for her voice and beauty, appearing first as a singer in 1767 in Covent Garden and she soon escalated to being one of the most highly sought after singer of oratorios’. Mary made her public debut as an actress at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1769 and then followed in her sister’s footsteps as a singer of Oratorios in 1771. Both sisters were forbidden to sing in public once married, and therefore Elizabeth retired at eighteen and Mary at twenty-two, depriving the music world of their beautiful voices.

　Elizabeth’s dramatic love life was the talk of society, she broke off her engagement to Walter Long in 1771, reputedly because of an affair with Captain Thomas Mathews, a married friend of the family, but by 1772 it is believed that she fled to France with Richard Brinsley Sheridan acting as her escort, to distance herself from Mathews and to enter a convent in Lille. Prior to the second (and legal) marriage of Elizabeth and Sheridan in London on the 13th April 1773, Mathews and Sheridan fought two duels for her hand.

　Gainsborough carried out this painting between early 1771 and March 1772. In 1785 upon the request of the Linley family, he re-touched the painting to depict the sitters in the fashion of the 1780s. It appears that Mary had not been satisfied with the likeness, however when it returned to the Linley household on the 2nd November 1785, Mary wrote to Elizabeth ‘I found our picture come home from Gainsbro’s very much improved and freshened up. My father and mother are quite in raptures with it; indeed it is in my opinion, the best and handsomest of you that I have ever seen.’ What we currently see today is combination of Gainsborough’s own hand 1771-2 and 1785.

 

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　"Gainsborough became friendly with the Linleys after his move to Bath in 1759. This exceptionally talented family dominated musical life in the town. Elizabeth, the elder girl (in blue), was one of the foremost sopranos of the day, and Mary had a successful career as a singer and actress. Gainsborough's work on this painting was interrupted by Elizabeth's elopement in 1772 with Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the future playwright and politician.

　The sisters are shown as if they have paused in their music making in a spring woodland. The relaxed elegance of their pose shows an intimate understanding of Van Dyck, whose portraits had a strong influence on Gainsborough's oeuvre."

 

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@多维茨画廊：The closest of companions, this double portrait of Elizabeth (1754-92) and Mary (1758-87) Linley is the only known painting depicting the pair of well-known musical sisters together. Elizabeth, the eldest, wears a pale blue dress and gazes into the distance, with her hands resting on a guitar. Mary, dressed in golden brown, looks directly at the viewer while holding a score sheet on her lap. The Linley family were a famous musical family in Britain, becoming known as ‘The Nest of the Nightingales’. Elizabeth was known for her voice and beauty, becoming one of the most highly sought after singers of oratorios after her debut in 1767. Mary made her public debut as an actress in 1769 and then followed in her sister’s footsteps as a singer of oratorios. Both sisters were forbidden to sing in public once married, and Elizabeth therefore retired at eighteen and Mary at twenty-two. 

　The British painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) moved to Bath in 1759 and became good friends with the Linleys. From the late 1760s until 1789, he made a series of portraits of the family, including this work painted between early 1771 and March 1772. In 1785, upon the request of the Linley family, he re-touched the painting in order to depict the fashion-conscious sitters in the most up-to-date clothing of the 1780s.