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== Thomas Gainsborough ==

== Thomas Gainsborough ==

[[Image:Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish pd.jpg|thumb|Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 1787.]]

[[Image:Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish pd.jpg|thumb|Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 1787.]]

[[Thomas Gainsborough]]

[[Thomas Gainsborough]] (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 – London, 1788) was a landscape and portrait painter, considered one of the great English masters. In Bath and later in London he became well-known for [[portraits]] like ''Mrs. Philip Thicknesse (1760), Mary, Countess Howe (about 1763-4), The Blue Boy (exhibited R.A. 1770), and the landscape The Harvest Wagon (exhibited S.A. 1767). In 1768 he became one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy, at which he exhibited annually until 1784''. <ref>[http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsboroughbio.html Biography]</ref>

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