Gainsborough
Americannoun
noun
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As the demand grew for a portrait by Gainsborough, he himself became fashionable and was taken up by King George III. Even so, the name “Van Dyck” was among the artist’s last words.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Asked to paint them out, Gainsborough revised the work into an image of longing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Gainsborough studied Van Dyck’s composition and color, and in maturity absorbed elements of the master—the grand scroop of silk, the drama of the gaze—into his own portraiture.
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
Like the Gainsborough and Reynolds portraits painted during his lifetime, Mozart’s music says, ‘I will do my best to make this beautiful because that’s what life, at its best, can be.’
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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