'''Thomas Gainsborough''' (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 – London, 1788) was an [[English]] landscape and portrait [[painter]]. He was the dominant [[British]] portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. | '''Thomas Gainsborough''' (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 – London, 1788) was an [[English]] landscape and portrait [[painter]]. He was the dominant [[British]] portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. |