Lindsay, (HarperCollins, 1982) A Nest of Nightingales: Thomas Gainsborough, The Linley Sisters. Paintings and their Context II, ed. Giles Waterfield, (Dulwich PIcture Gallery, 1988) The Paintings of Thomas Gainborough, Malcolm Cormack, (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Gainsborough & Reynolds: Contrasts in Royal Patronage, exhibition catalogue, (Queen's Gallery, 1994) Gainsborough's Vision, Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson (Liverpool University Press, 1999) The Art of Thomas Gainborough: A little business for the Eye, Michael Rosenthal, (Yale University Press, 1999) The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. John Hayes (Yale University Press, 2001) Gainsborough, eds. Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone, (Tate, 2002) Gainsborough in Bath, Susan Sloman, (Yale University Press, 2002) Gainsborough, William Vaughan, (World of Art, Thames & Hudson, 2002) – the most accessible introduction Sensation & Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door, ed. Ann Bermingham (Yale University Press, 2005) Thomas Gainsborough's First Self-portrait, Stephen Conrad, in The British Art Journal, Vol. XII, No. 1, Summer 2011, pp. 52–59 Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, ed. Benedict Leca, (Giles, 2011) Gainsborough's Landscapes: Themes and Variations, Susan Sloman, (Philip Wilson, 2012) Gainsborough: A Portrait, James Hamilton, (W&N, 13 July 2017) References External links Gainsborough at the Government Art Collection Thomas Gainsborough's works of art at Waddesdon Manor Ellis Waterhouse archive John Hayes archive; research papers of John Hayes, British art historian and a leading authority on Thomas Gainsborough 1727 births 1788 deaths People from Sudbury, Suffolk Burials at St. Anne's Church, Kew 18th-century English painters 18th-century English male artists English male painters Royal Academicians English portrait painters Landscape artists Rococo painters Deaths from cancer in England People educated at Sudbury Grammar School Waddesdon Manor