Who was Thomas Gainsborough's main rival?
William Hogarth
George Romney
John Constable
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Answer
Thomas Gainsborough was a British portrait and landscape painter, who is regarded as one of the greatest portraitists of the 18th century. He was a rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was the leading portrait painter of the day. Gainsborough's style was more naturalistic and informal than Reynolds's, and he was more interested in capturing the personality of his sitters than in creating idealized images.
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