Portrait of Ann Ford

Portrait of Ann Ford is a 1760 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough of the musician and singer Ann Ford.

[2] Gainsborough had moved to Bath the previous year, producing portraits of inhabitants and visitors to the fashionable spa town.

The painting had the aim of promoting both Ford's career and his growing reputation as a portraitist.

[3] Two years later Ford married Gainsborough's friend the travel writer Philip Thicknesse.

[4] Today the painting is in the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio.