Thomas Gainsborough (to be) born in Suffolk. He (to be) the youngest of nine children in the family. He (to go) to school in his native town. When he (to be) a boy, he (to be ) very good at drawing, and according to the story about him, he (to make) such a good portrait from memory of the thief whom he had seen robbing the garden, that the thief was caught. Thomas (to succeed) as a portrait-painter. Among his most famous portraits (to be) the portrait of Mrs. Siddons, the famous actress in a blue dress, and the portrait of his daughters. In his portrait of Mrs. Sheridan we (can) see a woman in a light blue. The definite artificiality in the Gainsborough’s painting constitutes his own style. Gainsborough (to be) fond of painting landscapes. Even in the portrait painting he is an out-of-door painter. The famous ‘Blue Boy’ is placed against the open sky and the background of brown and green landscape. In Mrs. Sheridan’s portrait, the background is a wide sky and broad view into the valley. He (to love) the countryside of his childhood and often (to say) that the Suffolk countryside had made him a painter. Gainsborough (to live) in that period when landscape painting (to be) not in fashion. Rich people (to spend) not money on landscapes. So, it’s really remarkable that there (to be) more than 40 unsold landscapes in his studio at the time of his death. The portraits (to be) painted in clear tones. His colour (to be) always tender and soft. Light tone scheme and use of light blues and yellows (to belong) essentially to his earlier period. Later Gainsborough (to enrich) his palette, but he always (to tend) to cool scheme and his blues (to predominate) in his paintings. Третье упр. 3) Find synonyms in the text. 1. home, domestic 2. well-known 3. create, establish 4. unusual, extraordinary 5. basically, importantly 6. improve, develop 7. scenery, surrounding 8. robber, pickpocket, cheat 9. infancy, immaturity