concept:era early modern
Mr and Mrs Andrews
Oil on canvas (c.1750) by Thomas Gainsborough. National Gallery, London. Double portrait of the newly married Robert Andrews and Frances Carter at the edge of their Suffolk estate, blending English conversation-piece portraiture with naturalistic landscape.
Scholarly Significance
Gainsborough's most iconic early work and central to discussions of 18th-century British landscape, class, and land ownership. Used by John Berger in Ways of Seeing (1972) as a critique of landscape painting as property assertion.