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- Thomas Gainsborough
- A Girl
- 1745 - 1750
- D 5526
- Thomas Gainsborough
- John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693 - 1770. Soldier
- 1767
- PG 1596
- Scottish Art
- Thomas Gainsborough
- The Honourable Mrs Graham (1757 - 1792)
- 1775 - 1777
- NG 332
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Mrs Hamilton Nisbet (1756 - 1834)
- After 1777 and before 1788
- NG 1521
- Scottish Art
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Rocky Landscape
- Painted about 1783
- NG 2253
Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727 - 1788)
Gainsborough excelled as a portrait and landscape painter. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and trained in London. He became a highly successful artist, first in Ipswich, then in Bath. He concentrated on portraiture to make a living and continued to build on the grand manner of Van Dyck, but also introduced a refreshing informality through his imaginative landscape backgrounds and his fluid, lively brushwork. Gainsborough was a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768 and returned to London in 1774. He was artistically and temperamentally quite different from his rival Reynolds, but the two artists developed a sincere mutual respect.
