His wife brought the family an annuity of £200, which enabled him to start his career as a portrait-painter in Ipswich. painting is in Michael Rosenthal, The Art of Thomas Gainsborough (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. In 1746 Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of Duke of Beaufort. In 1748 Gainsborough presented The Charterhouse(1748) to the Foundling Hospital, it was a way for the artist to show one of his works, because at that time there were no other possibilities for young artists. He spent several years working in the studios of different artists, one of whom was Hubert Gravelot, a draughtsman and engraver, another one was a scene-painter and illustrator Francis Hayman. In 1740, at the age of 13 he was sent to London to study art. He used to spend a lot of time outdoors, drawing. He showed an aptitude for drawing early and first was encouraged by his mother, who was a woman of well-cultivated mind and excelled in flower-painting. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk in the family of a clothier. Thomas Gainsborough is an English landscape and portrait painter, one of the great English masters.
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