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Baptized May 14, 1727 • England
Died August 2, 1788 • London • England
Notable Works “The Blue Boy”
Movement / Style English school

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Sudbury
Mrs. Graham by Thomas Gainsborough
Mrs. Sheridan by Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough: portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Pennant, Thomas
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough
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Dutch artist
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Augustus John, self-portrait, chalk on paper, c. 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Augustus John
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Wilson, Richard: Lake Albano
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
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Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
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Graham Sutherland.
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The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
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