Renowned British artist Thomas Gainsborough hid three phallic images in a painting of a young newly married couple after falling out with the family, it has emerged. The previously untitled painting ...

To the casual museumgoer, Georgian portraiture conjures stiff, self-satisfied images of frilly costumes and gravity-defying hairdos. The art of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), however, like that of his ...

A treasure trove of drawings by artist Thomas Gainsborough have been newly discovered at Windsor Castle. The 25 black-and-white chalk sketches include depictions of country landscapes, animals, and ...

“We will come down and blow you up with gunpowder, God damn you.” Those threatening words reached the uncle and cousin of the 18th-century artist Thomas Gainsborough, after they were anonymously sent ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. SAN DIEGO -- Thomas Gainsborough’s name will be forever tightly yoked to ...

Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy is returning to Britain exactly 100 years after a curator at The Royal Academy scrawled 'au revoir' on the back as it set sale for the US. Gainsborough's 1770 oil on ...

Down a quiet side street in Sudbury – a historic market town in Suffolk – a new gallery has just opened devoted to the man I believe is Britain’s greatest portrait painter. Gainsborough’s House has ...

Next Jan. 25, exactly 100 years later, “The Blue Boy” will again be shown at the National Gallery, on loan (until May 15, 2022) for the first time ever from the Huntington Library, Art Museum and ...

A Thomas Gainsborough painting known as The Morning Walk (1785) was damaged Saturday afternoon at the National Gallery in London after a man scratched the work with a screwdriver. Keith Gregory, 63, ...

One of the earliest known works by 18th-century painter Thomas Gainsborough, that was originally misattributed and bought by a retired company director for £2,600, is to be sold at auction with a ...

An album of drawings by 18th Century painter Thomas Gainsborough has been discovered in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. The drawings had been misattributed to another artist, Sir Edwin ...

The new building would give 'the nation a centre for one if its greatest artists' The latest plans for an £8.5m centre to commemorate a world-renowned artist have been revealed. Gainsborough's House ...