Editing Thomas Gainsborough (section)

===Suffolk===
In 1746, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the [[Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort|Duke of Beaufort]], who had settled a £200 annuity on her. The artist's work, then mostly consisting of landscape paintings, was not selling well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on painting portraits.<ref name="MMA">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZzL3ey6gDYC&pg=PA92 |page=92 |title=British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York, N.Y. |author=Katharine Baetjer |year=2009|isbn=9781588393487 }}</ref> 
While still in Suffolk, Gainsborough painted a portrait of ''The Rev. John Chafy Playing the Violoncello in a Landscape'' (c. 1750–1752; Tate Gallery, London).<ref>[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gainsborough-the-rev-john-chafy-playing-the-violoncello-in-a-landscape-t03895 Tate Gallery website]. Retrieved 3 November 2021.</ref>

In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, [[Mary Gainsborough|Mary]] ("Molly", 1750–1826) and Margaret ("Peggy", 1751–1820),<ref name="JH2017">{{cite book |last=Hamilton |first=James |author-link= |date=2017-07-13|title=Gainsborough: A Portrait |url= |location= |publisher=W&N |page= |isbn=978-1474600521}}</ref> moved to Ipswich. Commissions for portraits increased, but his clients included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity.<ref name="MMA"/> Toward the end of his time in Ipswich, he painted a self-portrait,<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2009/04/02/gainsborough_self_portrait_feature.shtml |title=The boy is back in town |work=BBC Suffolk}}</ref> now in the permanent collection of the [[National Portrait Gallery, London]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02381/Thomas-Gainsborough |title=Thomas Gainsborough |work=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>
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File:Margaret Burr (1728-1797), Mrs Thomas Gainsborough by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|''Margaret Burr'' (1728–1797), the artist's wife, {{circa}} early 1770s
File:Thomas Gainsborough 024.jpg|''Self-Portrait'' (1754)
File:Thomas Gainsborough 017.jpg|''The Artist's Daughters'' ({{circa|1759|lk=no}})
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