Thomas Gainsborough
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Thomas Gainsborough (baptised 1727-05-14; died 1788-08-02) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain.
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- ..this picture [Cornard Wood] was actually painted in Sudbury, begun before I left school, and was the means of my father's sending me to London.