Thomas Gainsborough counts among the most important English painters of the 18th century. Born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury, Sussex, the son of a cloth merchant was a nonconformist in artistic terms, which was one reason why he made his breakthrough relatively late. He had a difficult relationship with the Royal Academy of Arts, because he rejected the traditional continental painting style preferred by them and opposed the sober, academically influenced painting style with his concept of sensitivity (empathy).
Thomas Gainsborough was of the opinion that the viewer of a painting must be able to grasp the motifs depicted even without previous knowledge. To achieve this, he used an unusual colour scheme, natural scenery and a contrast between the main motif and the background. Joshua Reynolds about the fact that the colour blue could also be used centrally in a painting.
Thomas Gainsborough died of cancer on 2 August 1788 in London.
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.jpg "The Blue Boy, c.1770 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_c1785_-_(MeisterDrucke-73601).jpg "Mr and Mrs William Hallett (The Morning Walk), c.1785 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Duchess of Beaufort, c.1775-1780 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Honourable Mrs Graham by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Elizabeth and Mary Linley by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mary Heberden, ca. 1777 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Peter William Baker by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "An Officer of the 4th Regiment of Foot by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Conversation in a Park: Thomas Gainsborough and his wife Margaret, 1746, 0.73 x 0.68 m by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-322017).jpg "Study for a Group Portrait of a Musical Party, c.1770 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Hon. Frances Duncombe by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, 1785, 1935 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Ralph Cartwright, MP, aged 10 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1080993).jpg "Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, c. 1785-87 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Unknown lady with a blue cloak, c. 1765 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mr. and Mrs. George Byam and their eldest daughter, Selina, ca. 1764 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 c1775 - (MeisterDrucke-69614).jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Lowndes-Stone (1758-1837), c. 1775 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Cottage, Sheep and a Reclining Shepherd, c.1748-50 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Man Called Mr. Wood, the Dancing Master by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Road at the Edge of a Wood, 1760-65 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Major John Dade of Tannington, Suffolk by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mr and Mrs John Gravenor and Their Daughters, Elizabeth and Ann by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Georgiana Spencer, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 c1764 - (MeisterDrucke-100698).jpg "Portrait of John Joshua Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Countess of Sussex, bust length, in a blue dress with black facings by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1787 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Milkmaid Climbing a Stile by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Clayton Jones by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "John Eld of Seighford Hall, Stafford by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "William Lowndes, Auditor of His Majesty")
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.jpg "The Gravenor Family by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Rev. Samuel Uvedale by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sophia Charlotte Digby, Lady Sheffield by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Thomas Linley the Younger by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Madame Lebrun by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Gypsy Encampment by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Elizabeth Wrottesley, later Duchess of Grafton by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Study of a Woman in a Mob Cap by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Suffolk Landscape, 1748 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape and Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 Duchess of Kingston as She Appeared at the Venetian Ambassadors Ball in Somerset House engraved by Francis Chesham (1749-1806) (engraving) (bw photo) - (MeisterDrucke-36338).jpg "Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-88) Duchess of Kingston as She Appeared at the Venetian Ambassador")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. William Villebois by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Shepherd by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 castrato s - (MeisterDrucke-295565).jpg "Portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, Castrato Singer and Composer by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Cottage Door, c.1780 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man with Powdered Hair by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Isabella, Viscountess Molyneux, later Countess of Sefton by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Robert Auriol by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mary Little, Later Lady Carr by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "An Imaginary Wooded Village with Drovers and Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking Down a Lane by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Hilly Landscape by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Isaac Henrique Sequeira by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Market Cart, 18th century by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Thornton, Esq. by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Equestrian Portrait of Albert, Duke of Arenberg, Prince of Barbonçon by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Country House and Two Figures by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907462).jpg "Portrait of Mary Wise by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Stream and Weir by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Samuel Linley by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Woman with a spaniel, c.1749 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Milkmaid by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Figures by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_fifth_baronet_-_(MeisterDrucke-1433527).jpg "William Johnstone-Pulteney, later Fifth Lord Pulteney by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Thomas Chubb by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter, Lady Barbara Yelverton by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Thomas Cartwright of Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mary Little, later Lady Carr by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Harbord Harbord, Bt. Mp. by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Group Portrait of the Misses Sloper, both standing nearly full length in White Dresses with Blue Sashes by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Honourable Mrs Graham by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Rev. Humphrey Gainsborough in a black coat and white cravat by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_1785_-_(MeisterDrucke-36122).jpg "Mrs Sarah Siddons, the actress (1755-1831), 1785 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Miss Mary Gainsborough, Later Mrs. Fischer, the Artist")
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.jpg "Spitz Dog by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Peasant Family Going to Market by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Upland Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep and Country Track Winding Around a Knoll by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of James Christie by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cottage and Church by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of the United Kingdom by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 c1759 - (MeisterDrucke-249684).jpg "William Wollaston (1730-97), c.1759 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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