Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough's paintings join responsive color and brushwork with portraiture and landscape. Mr and Mrs Andrews places the couple beside their cultivated land, linking likeness with a broad rural view. The Painter's Daughters with a Cat emphasizes the sitters' gestures and closeness; unfinished areas reveal differences in the development of faces, clothing, and surroundings. His portrait practice in Bath and London coexisted with landscapes such as Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk, and experiments in original drawings.