Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury in 1727, the youngest of nine children. He showed an early aptitude for drawing, especially out of doors, and making farmyard animals out of clay.

Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting Blue Boy inspired 21st century painter Kehinde Wiley, and they're being shown across from each other at the Huntington Art Museum near Los Angeles.

Is this a self-portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, aged 10? ... William Whittington 15 May 2025, 9:53am. UK political opinion poll tracker. Ollie Corfe 15 May 2025, 9:49am.

A previously unknown Thomas Gainsborough portrait of composer Antonín Kammel Courtesy of Simon Gillespie Thomas Gainsborough was a man of many talents. Renowned as one of 18th-century England’s ...

Michael Bird reviews Gainsborough: a Portrait by James Hamilton. In 1727, when Thomas Gainsborough was born, English art was an insignificant presence on the European stage. In Italy, the ...

The earliest known self-portrait by 18th-century British painter Thomas Gainsborough is to be sold at auction. Gainsborough (1727-88) is thought to have created the artwork aged 13 in 1740, soon ...

The earliest known self-portrait by 18th-century British painter Thomas Gainsborough has sold at auction for £116,460 – around double its pre-sale estimate. Gainsborough (1727-88) is thought to ...

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 ...