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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_c1785_-_(MeisterDrucke-73601).jpg "Mr and Mrs William Hallett (The Morning Walk) by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Conversation in a park: Thomas Gainsborough and his wife Margaret by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, 1785, 1935 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 "Portrait of the Duchess of Beaufort by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Ralph Cartwright, MP, aged 10 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-322017).jpg "Study for a Group Portrait of a Musical Party by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of The Hon. Frances Duncombe by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Peter William Baker by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Suffolk Landscape, 1748 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Miss Mary Gainsborough, Later Mrs. Fischer, the Artist")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Thornton, Esq. by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Master Buthall, The Blue Boy, c1770 1901 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Open Landscape with Figures, Cows and Cottage by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mr. and Mrs. George Byam and their eldest daughter, Selina, c.1764 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Georgiana Spencer, Afterwards Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Admiral Thomas Graves by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Frances Susanna, Lady de Dunstanville by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mrs. Bedingfield and Her Daughter, 1760s by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Diana and Actaeon by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Cottage Door by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-313515).jpg "A Pool in the Woods, 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Copy after a Painting Traditionally Attributed to Van Dyck of Two Monks Reading by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of the United Kingdom by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Study of a Woman in a Mob Cap by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "King George III of the United Kingdom 1738-1820, 1785 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 "Cattle on a River Bank with Sailing Boats by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 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 "Portrait of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, wearing the Windsor Uniform by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "William Johnstone-Pulteney, Later 5th Baronet, c.1772 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Lady Lloyd and her son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk, c.1745-46 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Country House and Two Figures by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Thomas Pennant, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Conversation in a Park: The Artist and His Wife Margaret by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Man Called Mr. Wood, the Dancing Master by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures,... 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 "Portrait of Sophia Charlotte Digby, Lady Sheffield by Thomas Gainsborough")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-695957).jpg "Portrait of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape with a ruined Castle, and Cattle by a Pool by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Figures and Horses in a Country Lane by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Mountain Landscape with Bridge by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Sir Francis Basset by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, 1777-8 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Milkmaid Climbing a Stile by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Figures, Donkeys and Cottage by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Figures outside a Cottage Door by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "A Young Girl Holding a Child 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 "The Baillie Family by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Isabella, Viscountess Molyneux, later Countess of Sefton 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 "Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Road from Market by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Henrietta Read, later Henrietta Meares by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Thomas Cartwright of Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "The Painter")
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.jpg "A Couple in a Landscape by Thomas Gainsborough")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-151765).jpg "The three eldest daughters of George III: Princesses Charlotte, Augusta and Elizabeth in 1784 probably by Gainsborough Dupont by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "William Poyntz of Midgham and his Dog Amber by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady, Bust Length, in a Pink and White Dress Trimmed with Lace and a Pearl Necklace 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 "Unknown Lady with a Blue Cloak, c.1765 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with a Cottage, Sheep and a Reclining Shepherd by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man with Powdered Hair by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Landscape, c.1750 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-1460147).jpg "Miss Brummell, c.1781-82 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman 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 "Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle, Buildings on a Hill, and Rustic Lovers by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Bumper, a Bull Terrier by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Studies of Girls Carrying Twigs by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Frances Susanna, Lady de Dunstanville by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach, late 18th century, 1912 by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Beggar Boy by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Gipsy Encampment: Sunset by Thomas Gainsborough")
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.jpg "Wooded Landscape with Gypsy Encampment 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 "Anne, Duchess of Cumberland by Thomas Gainsborough")
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