Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was an English painter of portraits and landscapes. He painted a portrait of Ace that would hang in Windsor Castle in 1988. (TV: Silver Nemesis)

Scaroth also acquired some of Gainsborough's paintings. (TV: City of Death)

Frustrated with Vincent van Gogh's impressionistic rendition of the invisible monster, the Eleventh Doctor said that this would never happen with Gainsborough or another "proper" painter. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)

Behind the scenes

 * Adrienne Corri, who played Mena in the television story The Leisure Hive, wrote a book about Gainsborough.