Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is widely acknowledged as one of the masters of eighteenth-century art, with a truly international reputation. His paintings embody the sophistication and elegance of his age, while the inventiveness and complexity of his techniques remain dazzling. The exhibition will bring together the largest group of works by this artist ever gathered, including paintings and drawings from public and private collections in Britain, Europe and America, and loans from the National Gallery, London, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.