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Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough Hewas an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.

Family. He was born in Sudbury in 1727, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs. He was the son of a merchant.

Family. In 1746, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who se. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on painting portraits. In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity.

Bath. During the 1770s and 1780s Gainsborough developed a type of portrait in which he integrated the sitter into the landscape. In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. This gave him some influence with the Academy. Gainsborough remained the Royal Family's favorite painter, however.

Technique. Gainsborough's enthusiasm for landscapes is shown in the way he merged figures of the portraits with the scenes behind them. His landscapes were often painted at night by candlelight, using a tabletop arrangement of stones, pieces of mirrors, broccoli, and the like as a model. His later work was characterised by a light palette and easy, economical strokes. Gainsborough's only known assistant was his nephew, Gainsborough Dupont.

In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes. In the 1780s, Gainsborough used a device he called a "Showbox" to compose landscapes and display them backlit on glass. The original box is on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum with a reproduction transparency]He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 at the age of 61. According to his daughter Peggy, his last words were "van Dyck"Last years