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 "Portrait of Mrs. Peter William Baker by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mary Heberden, ca. 1777 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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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Cottage, Sheep and a Reclining Shepherd, c.1748-50 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Georgiana Spencer, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "An Imaginary Wooded Village with Drovers and Cattle 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 "The Rev. Samuel Uvedale by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Man Called Mr. Wood, the Dancing Master 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 "William Lowndes, Auditor of His Majesty")
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.jpg "Major John Dade of Tannington, Suffolk by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mountain Valley with Figures and Distant Village by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 c1764 - (MeisterDrucke-181373).jpg "Portrait of Dr. Rice Charleton (1710-89) by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Cottage Door, c.1780 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Gravenor Family by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Clayton Jones by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Stream and Weir by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Suffolk Landscape, 1748 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Shepherd by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mary Little, later Lady Carr by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Spitz Dog by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1460147).jpg "Miss Brummell, c.1781-82 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Elizabeth Wrottesley, later Duchess of Grafton by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of the United Kingdom by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907462).jpg "Portrait of Mary Wise by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1787 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man with Powdered Hair by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "John Eld of Seighford Hall, Stafford 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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_Governor_of_India_1780s_-_(MeisterDrucke-66965).jpg "Lord Hastings, Governor of India, 1780s by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Miss Susanna Gardiner (1752-1818) by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Thomas Linley the Younger by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1113656).jpg "Major William Tennant of Needwood House, Staffordshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Isabella, Viscountess Molyneux, later Countess of Sefton by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_Field_Marshal_-_(MeisterDrucke-1554608).jpg "Portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), Field Marshal by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1034303).jpg "John Pigott 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 "Travellers on Horseback Approaching a Village with a Spire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1556587).jpg "Portrait of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk 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 "Jane Eyton by Henry Wolf")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1554474).jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823) by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cottage and Church by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Venables Vernon, 2nd Lord Vernon by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 c1764 - (MeisterDrucke-100698).jpg "Portrait of John Joshua Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457680).jpg "An Associate of the Prince of Wales, c.1781 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Study of a Woman, seen from the Back by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Isaac Henrique Sequeira by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457574).jpg "Going to Market, c.1770 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907457).jpg "Spitz Dog by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Madame Lebrun by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1107373).jpg "Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Goats by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with Milkmaid by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Thomas Pennant, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Harbord Harbord, Bt. Mp. 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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.jpg "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1516394).jpg "Miss Philadelphia Rowley by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1531379).jpg "View in Suffolk, c.1755 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Woman with a spaniel, c.1749 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "William Pitt by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Robert Auriol by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Study of a Lady by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Reverend Wadham Pigott by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Hilly Landscape with Figures Approaching a Bridge, c.1763 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457961).jpg "Greyhounds Coursing a Fox by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Rocky Landscape with a Bridge by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Wooded Landscape with Figures by a House 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 "The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Dorothea, Lady Eden by Thomas Gainsborough")
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