Thomas Gainsborough

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The Blue Boy is a full-length oil on canvas portrait in oil by English artist Thomas Gainsborough, from c. It is owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California. Although both it and its creator are well known, the subject's identity is disputed.

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The Portrait of a Lady in Blue, or Woman in Blue, is an oil-on-canvas portrait by English artist Thomas Gainsborough, from c. It is held in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, to which it was left in 1916 by Alexei Khitrovo, making it Gainsborough's only work in Russia. It was created during Gainsborough's fifteen-year stay in Bath, Somerset.

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Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition.

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Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of the sitters until 1960 and was very little known before it appeared in an exhibition in Ipswich in 1927, after which it was regularly requested for other exhibitions in Britain and abroad, and praised by critics for its charm and freshness. By the post-war years its iconic status was established, and it was one of four paintings chosen to represent British art in an exhibition in Paris celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.