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Thomas Gainsborough, an English painter and draftsman, is considered one of the great masters of 18th-century portraiture and landscape painting. Consisting of 63 paintings and 30 works on paper, this exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of his art in more than 20 years and the first Gainsborough exhibition of its kind in America. This major gathering of the artist's finest works illustrate the full range and exceptional richness of Gainsborough's achievement, including portraits characterized by the noble and refined grace of the figures, his distinctively poetic landscape paintings, and his fancy pictures of scenes of the rural poor.