THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH/ EXPERIMENTS IN DRAWING

William Jackson, one of Gainsborough's closest friends and biographers, noted that if he had to rest his [Gainsborough] reputation o n one point, it should be on his Drawings. Gainsborough was indeed a draftsman of rare talent and creativity, and his experiments in drawing inspired an entire generation of British artists, from John Constable (1776-1837) to J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). When not occupied with his lucrative portrait business, Gainsborough devoted much of his time to his true passion, the depiction of landscape s, and mo...[Read more]