"[painting by artificial light is (as Gainsborough frequently did, according to Sir Joshua) very advantageous and improving to an artist."

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Gainsborough completed by candle-light his pictures of 'The Woodman', 'the Peasant Smoking at his Cottage Door', the 'Boy at the Fire', and the 'Boy and Cat'