THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH.
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Born 1727.—Died 1788.—George I.—George II.—George III.
This famous painter was for a long time self-taught, and his genius was first made known by his painting the head of a thief, who was looking over the wall of the garden in which the boy was painting by stealth. The head was so strikingly like, that the man was convicted upon it.