Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough
noun
English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
Syn: ↑Gainsborough
Instance Hypernyms: ↑painter

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Thomas Gainsborough [Thomas Gainsborough]
(1727–88) an English artist. He was influenced by Dutch artists such as Rubens and Van Dyck, and became famous for his ↑landscapes (= pictures of the countryside) and his ↑portraits, usually of members of the ↑aristocracy. He often combined both skills and painted his ↑portraits with outdoor country backgrounds, representing the effects of light on people’s clothes or on trees, etc. His best-known paintings are probably ↑Blue Boy and Mr and Mrs Andrews.

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