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Name: Thomas Gainsborough
Birth Date: May 14, 1727
Death Date: August 2, 1788
Place of Birth: Sudbury, Suffolk, England
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist

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Biography of Thomas Gainsborough
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The English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) ranks as one of the principal masters and innovators of the English school of landscape painting. Thomas Gainsborough was baptized in Sudbury, Suffolk, on May 14, 1727. His father, a substantial cloth...


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Thomas Gainsborough (baptised 1727-05-14 ; died 1788-08-02 ) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Unsourced ..this picture [ Cornard Wood ] was actually painted in Sudbury, begun before I left school, and...


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Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century...


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History Today
Gainsborough's house. (artist Thomas Gainsborough)
10/01/1995: 1,129 words, approx. 4 pages
Painter Thomas Gainsborough's house in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, is open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays, and is operated by a private charitable trust. The house serves as a gallery of Gainsborough's works, and has acquired more of the artist's works with funds from...
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The Art Bulletin
Thomas Gainsborough's Ann Ford.
12/01/1998: 8,817 words, approx. 29 pages
Thomas Gainsborough's full-length portrait of Ann Ford was designed to impress but took risks in picturing a woman musician whose public performances had caused a scandal. This article analyzes the painting as relating to that scandal and communicating formally something of the problems women...
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Sainsbury gives 18 works to UK galleries
10/29/2007: 285 words, approx. 1 pages
The late supermarket tycoon Simon Sainsbury left 18 paintings worth as much as $200 million to the Tate Britain and the National Gallery in a bequest that the two galleries described as the most significant in memory.The paintings, including works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas,...
 


 

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