{"id":121034,"date":"2026-02-03T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:22:20","slug":"the-fashion-of-portraiture-james-lane-post-hamptons-culture-lifestyle-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121034\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fashion Of Portraiture&#8217; \u2022 James Lane Post \u2022 Hamptons Culture &#038; Lifestyle Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100593 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gainsborough.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\"  \/>Thomas Gainsborough (1727\u20131788), Mary, Countess Howe, 1763\u201364, Oil on canvas, 94 15\/16 \u00d7 60 3\/4 in. (243.2 \u00d7 154.3 cm), English Heritage, Kenwood House, London. \u00a9 Historic England \/ Bridgeman Images<\/p>\n<p>Beginning February 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frick.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Frick Collection<\/a> in Manhattan will present its first special exhibition dedicated to the English artist Thomas Gainsborough, and the first devoted to his portraiture ever held in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Displaying more than two dozen paintings, the show will explore the richly interwoven relationship between Gainsborough\u2019s portraits and fashion in the eighteenth century. The works included represent some of the greatest achievements from every stage of this period-defining artist\u2019s career, drawn from the Frick\u2019s holdings and from collections across North America and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The trappings and trade of fashion filled Gainsborough\u2019s world \u2014 in magazines and tailor shops, at the opera and on promenades \u2014 and his portraits were at the heart of it all. This exhibition invites visitors to consider not only the clothing the artist depicted in his paintings, but also the role of his canvases as both records of and players in the larger conception of fashion: encompassing everything from class, wealth, labor, and craft to formality, intimacy, and time. Recent technical investigations also shed light on Gainsborough\u2019s artistic process, including connections to materials \u2014 textiles, dyes, cosmetics, jewelry \u2014 that fueled the fashion industry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18-Met.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1848\"  \/>Thomas Gainsborough (1727\u20131788), Grace Dalrymple Elliott, 1778, Oil on canvas, 92 1\/4 \u00d7 60 1\/2 in. (234.3 \u00d7 153.7 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art \/ ArtResource<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture\u201d is organized by Aimee Ng, the museum\u2019s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spectacular and at times, to modern eyes, absurd fashions in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough continue to fascinate viewers today. The appeal of these demonstrations of taste, status, and wealth persists in tension with increased recognition, over the last few decades, of the injustices that made such extravagance possible. This exhibition necessarily deals with clothing and personal attire, while exploring how fashion was understood in Gainsborough\u2019s time, how it touched every level of society, and how portraiture itself was as much a construction and invention as a sitter\u2019s style,\u201d said Ng.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit will run through May 11.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"OTEsMTEsNjA=\" href=\"http:\/\/hamptonsjazzfest.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jam-session-jameslanepost-oct2024.jpg\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Gainsborough (1727\u20131788), Mary, Countess Howe, 1763\u201364, Oil on canvas, 94 15\/16 \u00d7 60 3\/4 in. 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