A Suffolk village with a celebrated high street, just 15 miles from Colchester has been named among the best places to live in the UK.

Huntington Library Quarterly publishes articles on the literature, history, and art of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Britain and America, with special emphasis on: the interactions of ...

The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1756, detail) by Thomas Gainsborough - DeAgostini Thomas Gainsborough first painted his beloved daughters Molly and Peggy when they were aged six and five, ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired Thomas Gainsborough’s “Going to Market, Early Morning,” considered one of the finest examples of landscape paintings by one of the 18th century’s most esteemed ...

METAIRIE, La. — Sidelined again and recovering from yet another injury and surgery, Michael Thomas had to take the wins where he could get them last fall and winter. It had been three years since the ...

A "masterpiece" portrait by 18th-Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has been found in storage, Royal Museums Greenwich says. The 1762 painting of Captain Frederick Cornewall was spotted in an ...

Gainsborough (1727-88) is thought to have created the artwork aged 13 in 1740, soon after moving to London from Sudbury in Suffolk. The artwork is to be sold at auction at Cheffins in Cambridge where ...

‘I love this engagingly beautiful antidote to dark, damp winter nights, with its sunlit glare from the chalk cliffs, which frame a view as if to infinity over the Baltic. I love its mystery. ‘Two ...

The £10 million project has transformed the 18th-century artist’s Suffolk birthplace into an international centre displaying his work and that of other artists from the county. Photography by Nick ...

Down a quiet side street in Sudbury – a historic market town in Suffolk – a new gallery has just opened devoted to the man I believe is Britain’s greatest portrait painter. Gainsborough’s House has ...

Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury and began his portrait painting career in the town, before becoming equally famous for his landscapes A painter's studio and a portrait of the first black man ...

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 ...