In the narrow lane behind the childhood home of Thomas Gainsborough, the unemployed people of the painter’s native Sudbury used to queue for admission to the town’s labour exchange. In its place, a ...

SAN MARINO, Calif. (KABC) -- The Huntington Art Museum's "Blue Boy" is back on display after an extensive cleanup - but the gallery is closed for the pandemic and visitors are not allowed. Even a ...

Chantal Joffe's self-portrait with her daughter Esme called Looking Towards Bexhill is set on the beach at St Leonard’s-on-Sea, Sussex A collection of self-portraits by "major stars of contemporary ...

Surprisingly for one of the most prominent portrait-painters in all of British art, Gainsborough's animals, lovingly portrayed, their body language based on acute observation, dominate their human ...

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The birthplace of one of the most important British artists in the 18th Century, which is now a museum, has won a major award. Gainsborough House in Sudbury, Suffolk, was home to Thomas Gainsborough - ...

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British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is said to have been one of the most important painters of the 18th century. Forty-four portraits of his family members are currently on view at The ...