Portrait of Sir Edward Turner

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Portrait of Sir Edward Turner
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) - Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Bt of Ambrosden, Oxford (1719-1766) - OP491 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery.jpg
Artist Thomas Gainsborough
Year1762
Type Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions229 cm× 147.5 cm(90 in× 58.1 in)
Location Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton

Portrait of Sir Edward Turner is a 1762 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. [1] It depicts the English landowner and Whig politician Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet. [2] Turner is shown at full-length in a brocade suit. It was produced while the Suffolk-born Gainsborough was based in the spa city of Bath, having recently moved there from Ipswich.

Today the painting is in the collection of the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the West Midlands having been acquired in 1981. [3]

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