Gainsborough
Americannoun
noun
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Gainsborough, who reached the FA Cup second round in 2024-25 and first round last season under Wilcox, have made the Northern Premier League and Football Association aware of the incidents.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Read, a well-known portraitist at the time, studied in Europe, moved professionally in elite circles and was so successful that she was paid more handsomely than her better-known contemporaries, including Gainsborough.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to the Met Office, temperatures could reach 34C in Gainsborough later.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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
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
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