We have assembled some of our finest Gainsborough drawings from the permanent collection for our Collection Highlights. As a trainee artist in London during the 1740s, Gainsborough acquired his skills through the burgeoning drawing academies and printmaking studios. Gainsborough studied under Hubert-François Gravelot, who had set up a practice in London before returning to France in 1745. The superiority of the French teaching of drawing had a great impact on Gainsborough, and indeed the entire British school.