Gainsborough

American  

[geynz-bur-oh, -buhr-oh, geynz-ber-uh] / ˈgeɪnzˌbɜr oʊ, -ˌbʌr oʊ, ˈgeɪnz bər ə /

noun

1. Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.

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Gainsborough British  

/ -brə, ˈɡeɪnzbərə /

noun

1. Thomas. 1727–88, English painter, noted particularly for his informal portraits and for his naturalistic landscapes

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Example Sentences

A few minutes’ drive from Ansari’s Kensington apartments, a boutique London hotel called the Gainsborough Hotel sold for £6.5 million in 2018 to an entity controlled by Salim Ahmed Said, according to U.K. property records.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The Oxford Companion to Art, an old owl distilled in its praise, calls the English artist Thomas Gainsborough “an independent and original genius.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

But as the Oxford Companion says of Gainsborough, “Unlike most of his contemporaries he employed no drapery painter.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The other two Britons who died since 2023 were Jane Pressley, 62, of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, who died in January three years ago after falling ill while holidaying on Sal the previous November.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

In his maturity, Handel converted this artistic response into action, becoming one of the founding sponsors, alongside artists Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough, of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital in London.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall