“We will come down and blow you up with gunpowder, God damn you.” Those threatening words reached the uncle and cousin of the 18th-century artist Thomas Gainsborough, after they were anonymously sent ...

‘Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture’ presents a detailed look at the artist’s painted fashions throughout his four-decade career. The Frick Collection’s stylish new exhibition “Gainsborough: The ...

Thomas Gainsborough was a man of many talents. Renowned as one of 18th-century England’s greatest portraitists and landscape painters, the artist was also an avid musician who owned five viola da ...

At first glance, Thomas Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews, looks like just another classic painting of the 18th century, celebrating the dynastic marriage of the upper classes in all their finery. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1756, detail) by Thomas Gainsborough - DeAgostini Thomas Gainsborough first painted ...

From Tarek Atoui's sound commission in the Turbine Hall to Edward Enninful's 1990s at Tate Britain, six museum shows that run well beyond the fairs. The Kimbell Art Museum today announced two special ...

The celebrated 18th-century England portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough got an early start to his career. At the ripe age of 13, he left Sudbury, Suffolk, to study his chosen craft in London.

The English portraitist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) took no small pleasure in being known as “the likeness man.” Rather he than Sir Thomas Reynolds, his principle adversary. The fashionable ...

The portraits and landscape paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) are among the cornerstones of 18th-century British art. His work distinguishes itself through the vivacity and individuality ...