Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Known for incorporating Dutch and French styles into English art, Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century.

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