1. Gainsborough - Noun
2. Gainsborough - Proper noun
English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
Source: WordNetThe Vicomtesse alias Moira Lister - even though she is on the wrong side of 60, is looking like an exquisite, flawless Gainsborough cameo. Moira Lister
This was my first encounter with art as art [when he saw 'Pinky' ['Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie'], 1794 painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy' painted by Thomas Gainsborough.... somebody actually MADE those paintings....(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist. Robert Rauschenberg
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. Arthur Smith
As I write, June 10th, 1861, John Constable stands next to Gainsborough as a painter of English landscape. Whoever passes him will paint well indeed. John Constable
[painting by artificial light is (as Gainsborough frequently did, according to Sir Joshua) very advantageous and improving to an artist. Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough was a native of Sudbury, Suffolk; his father was a tailor. Gainsborough, as a child, went to the Sudbury Free School, where he distinguished himself by making ink-drawings on the desks instead of writing his copies. This I had from Mr. Briggs. Thomas Gainsborough