His portraits of children include Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher and The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, and he and Richard Wilson revolutionized landscape paintings in such works as Landscape in Suffolk.  
His portraits of children include Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher and The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, and he and Richard Wilson revolutionized landscape paintings in such works as Landscape in Suffolk.  Grey clouds, sheaves of wheat, a gentleman in hunting dress with his dog and a shotgun, and a snooty woman in a satin dress all appear in his Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. This artist's most famous painting, perhaps an homage to Anthony Van Dyck or retort to rival Joshua Reynolds, is a six-foot-tall portrait depicting the son of a hardware merchant in a colorful outfit.  FTP, name this 18th-century English painter of The Blue Boy.
His portraits of children include Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher and The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, and he and Richard Wilson revolutionized landscape paintings in such works as Landscape in Suffolk.  
Thomas {Gainsborough}