Thomas Gainsborough
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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 Britain. Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. His father was a weaver involved
with the wool trade. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with
his pencilling skills so that he let him go to London
to study art in 1740. In London he first trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot but eventually became
associated with William
Hogarth and his school. One of his mentors was Francis Hayman. In those years he contributed
to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the
supper boxes at Vauxhall
Gardens. 
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
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