Gainsborough brought his talent for capturing personalities to his landscape painting as well, works which reportedly gave him greater personal satisfaction. While Going to Market, Early Morning is ostensibly a landscape, its two main figures are central, and their interaction is a captivating moment in this dream-like scene, set in the dewy morning hours
A founding member of the British Royal Academy, Gainsborough also experimented with new forms of printmaking in his lifetime, and through these new technologies was able to bring his work to a wider audience.