Stock Photo - The Painter´s Daughters with a Cat by .Thomas Gainsborough, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, baptised 14th May 1727 - London, England, 2nd August 1788). Gainsborough was father to two daughters, Mary and Margaret, born in 1750 and 1751 respectively. He painted them on several occasions but this is The Painter´s Daughters with a Cat, though is hard to spot the cat. This portrait is undated but is believed to have been painted around 1760-61, based on the approximate age of the two girls. The unfinished work shows Mary and Margaret in a casual embrace, looking not directly at the viewer but slightly off to the side, perhaps to where Gainsborough works at the canvas. Sadly the painting was never finished and as such, we can only catch the barest glimpse of the phantom cat in the little girl´s arms, or share this moment of childhood domesticity.