Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury. His father, John Gainsborough, was a weaver in Suffolk. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills. So he let him go to London to study art in 1740. In London he first trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot. But eventually became associated with William Hogarth and his school.