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."
Read more about this topic: Thomas Gainsborough
Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or music:
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)