根兹博罗(1727～1788年)
Gainsborough, Thomas
英国画家。十三岁时，离开家乡沙福克到伦敦学画。到1750年左右，已在肖像画和风景画方面建立了声誉。1759年他迁往巴兹疗养胜地，有更多的人和有钱人欣赏他的作品。1768年成为皇家美术院的筹建成员。他受到范戴克的影响，发展了一种高雅和严整的肖像画风格，这种影响可见於其着名的《蓝衣少年》等类肖像画中。1774年迁往伦敦，受宠於皇室，地位比正式的宫廷画师雷诺兹还高。他爱画风景画，这是受到17世纪的荷兰画家和後来的鲁本斯影响，在《饮水处》（1777）里很明显可看出鲁本斯的风格。他的产量十分惊人，生产了许多用各种媒体作的风景画，晚年作的画以海景、田园景物和儿童为题材。在当代的大画家中，只有他在风景画方面贡献了极大的心力。
English version：
1727～1788年
Gainsborough, Thomas
British painter. At 13 he left his native Suffolk to study in London. By c. 1750, back in Suffolk, he had established a reputation in portraiture and landscape painting. He painted landscapes for pleasure; portraiture was his profession. In 1759 he moved to the fashionable spa of Bath, where his works would be seen by a wider and wealthier public. In 1768 he became a founding member of the Royal Academy of Art. He developed an elegant, formal portrait style inspired by Anthony Van Dyck, whose influence can be seen in such portraits as his famous Blue Boy (1770). In 1774 he moved to London and became a favorite of the royal family, preferred above the official court painter, Joshua Reynolds. His love of landscape came from studying 17th-century Dutch artists and later Peter Paul Rubens, whose influence is evident in The Watering Place (1777). His output was prodigious; he produced many landscape drawings in various media, and in his later years seascapes, pastoral subjects, and children. Among the great portrait painters of the era, he alone devoted serious attention to landscapes.