"In Bath his general practice was in portraiture, in which he had peculiar excellence and frequently produced pictures of surprising resemblance and perfection. Likeness alone was all he avowed to aim at; from this concentration it must often have happened that although his pictures were exactly like and to the parties for whom they were painted, and their families, highly satisfactory at the time whilst the prevailing modes were daily seen and the friends approved and beloved in them, yet the satisfaction arising from this resemblance was lessening daily as the fleeting fashions varied, and were changing from time to time."
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Ozias Humphry c. 1770s, from his unpublished autobiographical memoir (in the possession of the Royal Academy, London); as cited in Thomas Gainsborough, by William T, Whitley; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons – London, Smith, Elder & Co, Sept. 1915, p. 391 (Appendix B)
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Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (baptised 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
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