Leonard Jonathan. The World of Gainsborough 1717-1788

Morristown USA: Time-Life Books Ink., 1969. — 200 p.Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes