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Stand before Mr and Mrs Andrews, painted around seventeen fifty by Thomas Gainsborough, and you sense quiet confidence. The couple occupy only the left third of the canvas; everything else belongs to their Suffolk estate — rolling fields, pale sky, landed wealth made visible.
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