Gainsborough claimed to prefer painting landscapes to portraits, but the latter were much more lucrative and it is for portraits such as 'Mr and Mrs Andrews', 'The Blue Boy' and 'The Morning Walk ...
She was lead curator and author of Turner and the Sea (Royal Museums Greenwich/Thames & Hudson 2013) and is the curator of the forthcoming Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude and Gainsborough’s Blue Boy ...