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Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, northeast London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951.
This is a list of films made by the British production company Gainsborough Pictures and its parent company Gaumont British between 1924 and 1950. The Gainsborough brand was first used in 1924, although several films had previously been made by the company's founders under a different name.
TitleRelease DateDirectorApril 1924May 1924July 1924Graham CuttsJuly 1924George A. CooperThe portrait and landscape painter, Thomas Gainsborough is considered one of the most important British artists of the late 18th century. Born at Sudbury, Suffolk, Gainsborough was the youngest son of a cloth merchant.
- British
- May 14, 1727
- Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
- August 2, 1788
Mar 11, 2024 · Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio that was founded in 1924 by Michael Balcon and Graham Cutts. The studio would become a sister company to Gaumont British) in 1927, producing B-movies and melodramas.
1727 - 1788. Image: Detail from Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter, about 1748. Gainsborough was, with Reynolds (his main rival), the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century.
Gainsborough Pictures was a film studio based in Islington, London, active between 1924 and 1951. Their studios — which were purchased from Famous Players-Lasky when the American company withdrew from producing films in Britain — were demolished in 2002 and replaced by three blocks of upmarket apartments in 2004.
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Jan 21, 2022 · A record number of visitors queued outside the National Gallery in January 1922, despite the drizzly conditions, to see a single painting: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy (c 1770).
