2-645-969 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Portrait of Miss Singleton', c1769, (1910). Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He was noted for the speed with which he applied paint, and worked more from observations of nature (and of human nature) than from application of formal academic rules Oil paint on canvas. From The Connoisseur Vol XXVI. [Otto Limited, London, 1910]