Thomas Gainsborough was a master of English school of painting.

He was a portraitist and a landscape painter.

In his portraits green and blue colours predominate.

He was the first British painter who painted British native countryside.

He painted a wagon of hay, a poor cottage, poor peasants.

His works of landscape contain much poetry and music.

The particular discovery of Gainsborough was the creation of a form of art in which the characters and the background form a single unity.

Gainsborough emphasized that the natural background for his characters should be nature itself

His works, painted in clear and trans-parent tones, had a considerable influence on the artists of the English school.

He was in advance of his time.

His art became a forerunner of the Ro-mantic Movement.