Daniel Gardner (1750-1805)

• Was a British painter.
• He is known for his work as a portraitist.
• He established a fashionable studio in Bond Street in London.
• He specializing in small scale portraits in pastel, crayons or gouache, often borrowing Reynolds' poses.
• Daniel Gardner was a pupil of George Romney.
• Around 1767 Gardner moved to London where in 1770 he became a student at the Royal Academy of Arts.
• There he was taught by Johann Zoffany, Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Benjamin West, Giovanni Battista Cipriani and Francesco Bartolozzi.
• In 1771 Gardner won a silver medal at the Royal Academy of Arts for the portrait of an old man.
• He did form a close friendship with Joshua Reynolds and John Constable.
• Gardner portrayed Constable in 1796.
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