Thomas Gainsborough was a portrait and landscape painter, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. Some of his early portraits show the sitters grouped in a landscape (Mr. and Mrs. …

Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. [3] He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. …

Gainsborough continued to enjoy considerable success in his later career, becoming a favourite painter of King George III and his family. When he died in 1788 at the age of 61, Thomas Gainsborough was …

The British Thomas Gainsborough achieved fame for his outstanding innovations and techniques in both landscape and portraiture.

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Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school.

(Baptised Sudbury, Suffolk, 14 May 1727; died London, 2 August 1788). English painter (of portraits, landscapes, and fancy pictures), draughtsman and occasional printmaker, one of the most individual …

Jan 18, 2024 · In his early years, Gainsborough primarily painted landscapes and worked as a restorer for art dealers. Although his true desire was to paint landscapes exclusively, portraits were in much …

The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, the fifth son of a cloth merchant. He was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to a London silversmith, and was taught …

Gainsborough produced around 500 works of which more than 200 are portraits. They are characterised by the noble and refined elegance of his figures, their poetic charm, a use of predominantly cool …