Portrait of David Garrick

Portrait of David Garrick
ArtistThomas Gainsborough
Year1770
TypeOil on canvas, portrait
LocationNational Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of David Garrick is a 1770 painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. A half-length portrait of the celebrated English actor-manager David Garrick it was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1770. Diarist Horace Walpole described it as "very like". Garrick, owner and star performer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was at the height of his fame when Gainsborough painted him. It was painted in Bath.

Today it is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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