The big guns of the group are Zoffany (a German immigrant who was bankrolled by George III), Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
FORBES: Ancestor worship
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Van Dyck paved the way for Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and their 18th-century contemporaries.
WSJ: Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Status Symbols | by Willard Spiegelman
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He drew convincingly as Andrea Mantegna and Nicolas Poussin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Gainsborough and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
FORBES: The Case Of The Art Forger Who Restored Dead Painters' Careers [Book Excerpt]