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Title
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Portrait of Ignatius Sancho
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Description
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The portrait of Ignatius Sancho was painted at Bath on 29 November 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Gainsborough, perhaps the greatest British painter of the eighteenth century, resided at Bath from 1760-1774.
The portrait was engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi for the frontispiece of The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, which appeared in 1782. It came up for sale in 1889, occasioning a small flurry of letters in Notes and Queries.
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date created
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1782
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cultural context
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British
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Rights Holder
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National Portrait Gallery
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Source
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National Portrait Gallery
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measurements
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7 in. x 4 5/8 in
