| Portrait of Thomas Linley the Younger | |
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| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | c.1772 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 75.9 cm× 63.5 cm(29.9 in× 25.0 in) |
| Location | Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
Portrait of Thomas Linley the Younger is a c.1772 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough. It depicts the English musician and composer Thomas Linley the Younger, part of the Bath-based Linley musical family. [1] [2]
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Due to his youthful talent and friendship with Wolfgang Mozart with whom he met while studying in Florence, he was later dubbed the "English Mozart". He drowned during a boating accident in Lincolnshire in 1778 at the age of twenty two. at the time of the painting Gainsborough was based in Bath, and was on friendly terms with the Linley family. His painting The Linley Sisters was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1772.
Today athe painting is in the collection of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, having been part of the bequest of William Linley in 1835. [3]
