22 Facts About Daniel Gardner

Daniel Gardner was a British painter, best known for his work as a portraitist.

Daniel Gardner established a fashionable studio in Bond Street in London, specializing in small scale portraits in pastel, crayons or gouache, often borrowing Reynolds' poses.

However, Daniel Gardner used to say that he learned very little from him.

At around 1767 Daniel Gardner moved to London where in 1770 he became a student at the Royal Academy of Arts.

In 1771 Daniel Gardner won a silver medal at the Royal Academy of Arts for the portrait of an old man.

Apart from this picture no further works by Daniel Gardner were shown at the major London exhibitions.

At that time Daniel Gardner was residing at 11, Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, London.

However, if it comes to figure work Daniel Gardner was never such an accurate draughtsman like Reynolds was.

Daniel Gardner portrayed some of the most famous personalities of his days like Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Angelica Kauffman and Lord George Gordon.

Therefore it does not come as a surprise that Daniel Gardner appears to have made money very rapidly.

Daniel Gardner's pictures were very popular, he was able to paint quickly, and he got good prices for them.

Daniel Gardner spent a considerable part of his time away from home, having adopted the practice of staying in the house with his patron, when he could paint various members of the family, and sometimes of the neighbouring gentry as well.

Daniel Gardner continued this practice of buying houses and land for many years, until he had accumulated a substantial fortune and finally could afford to retire.

However, the majority of the dry colours used by Daniel Gardner he appears to have obtained from Messrs.

However, this does not come as a surprise if one takes into account that Daniel Gardner worked with both, Joshua Reynolds as well as Thomas Gainsborough.

Since Daniel Gardner could afford to retire at the height of his fame he got out of the public eye and was nearly forgotten as an artist when he died in 1805.

Daniel Gardner was a Westmorland man, born in Redman's Yard, Stricklandgate, Kirkby-Kendal in 1750.

Daniel Gardner's father Caleb was a cordwainer, his mother was Elizabeth Redman, sister of Mr Alderman Redman of Kendal, an upholsterer, with whom George Romney's father John Romney, a cabinet maker, was connected in business.

Daniel Gardner's wife died shortly after the birth of the second son in 1781.

Evidence of this friendship is a double portrait that Daniel Gardner painted around 1780 showing William Pennington and himself.

George Daniel Gardner became a barrister and a burgess of Kendal.

Daniel Gardner did not mix easily with his fellow artists, who viewed him as parsimonious, but he did form a close friendship with Joshua Reynolds and John Constable.