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Portrait of a Woman, Possibly of the Lloyd Family
Thomas Gainsborough
British (English) (1727–1788)
18th century
c. 1750
Oil on canvas
27 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (69.6 x 53 cm)
Framed: 34 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 3 in. (87 x 70.5 x 7.6 cm)
ACF 1946.04
Along with his contemporary Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough was one of the leading figures in the glamorous “golden age” of British portraiture.

Suffolk Landscape
Thomas Gainsborough
British (English) (1727–1788)
18th century
mid-1750s
Oil on canvas
25 1/8 x 30 1/4 in. (63.8 x 76.9 cm)
Framed: 34 1/4 x 41 x 3 1/2 in. (87 x 104.1 x 8.9 cm)
ACF 1942.02
Gainsborough’s passion for landscape dated from his earliest years. The canvases he painted in his native Suffolk show his admiration for the Dutch seventeenth-century landscapes that were increasingly available in the English market, and which Gainsborough restored, copied, and later collected.