Young Gainsborough
This video, filmed from original works on location in East Anglia, looks at Thomas Gainsborough's early years in his native Suffolk where he worked mainly as a landscape painter before becoming a fashionable portrait painter in Bath and London. His Dutch-influenced painting "Cornard Wood", and his famous double portrait "Mr and Mrs Andrews" are discussed
VHS Video, English, ©1997
Home Vision Arts/Public Media Inc. ; Distributed by National Gallery Publications, Chicago, London, ©1997