Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great English portrait and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. His modern manner of painting based on emotions was criticized by contemporaries such as Joshua Reynolds, but it gave Gainsborough a special position in an art world dominated by academic rigor and earned him the greatest appreciation from English society.

托马斯•庚斯博罗（Thomas Gainsborough）是18世纪最伟大的英国肖像画家和山水画家之一。 虽然他的基于情感的现代绘画方式遭到了约书亚•雷诺兹（Joshua Reynolds）等与他同时代的画家的批评，但它为庚斯博罗在被学术严谨主导的艺术界赢得了一个特殊的位置，英国社会也给予了他**的赞赏。