Thomas Gainsborough
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Thomas Gainsborough was an English painter of portraits and landscapes. He painted a portrait of Ace that would hang in Windsor Castle in 1988. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
Scaroth also acquired some of Gainsborough's paintings. (TV: City of Death)
In October 1987, Alek Zenos cited Gainsborough among others as an example of Britain's rich culture of artists. (AUDIO: We Are The Daleks)
Frustrated with Vincent van Gogh's impressionistic rendition of the invisible monster, the Eleventh Doctor said that this would never happen with Gainsborough or another "proper" painter. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)
Behind the scenes
- Adrienne Corri, who played Mena in the television story The Leisure Hive, wrote a book about Gainsborough.
