Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788)
English portrait and landscape painter, was born at Sudbury, Suffolk. He early displayed a decided talent for painting and began life as a portrait painter, producing during his successful career more than 200 portraits. These are distinguished by great nobility and refinement, and several/ rank among the greatest masterpieces of English portrait painting
His later genius found adequate expression in the delineation of the rich and quiet scenery of his native country, and to this he mainly devoted himself after settling in London in 1774. among his finest productions are “The Shepherd's Boy”, “The Fight Between Little Boys and Dogs”, “The Sea-Shore”, “The Woodman in a Storm”, and “Duchess of Devonshire”. The most celebrated of his pictures is the “The Blue Boy”.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1817.
You can visit the memorial page for Thomas Gainsborough.
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