“We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyck is of the company.”

— Thomas Gainsborough

Quote in Summer 1788, as cited in Thomas Gainsborough, Lord Ronald Sutherland F.S.A. - publishers, George Bell and Sons, London 1903, p. 10
1770 - 1788

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