Thomas Gainsborough - in Fiction and Music

In Fiction and Music

  • Kitty (1945) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway.
  • In the song 20th Century Man from the Kinks' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies, Ray Davies lists Gainsborough as one of the painters he prefers to "your smart modern painters."

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