© Gainsborough's House
A Wooded Landscape with Horsemen
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Location: Gainsborough's House
Date: 1775
Materials: chalk, watercolour, lead white on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £15,000 (Total: £87,500)
Vendor: Leger Galleries
Review number: 3615 (1991)
Provenance:
Goodenough Earle; by descent to F. Wheat Newton; Agnew & Son; G.D.Widener; By descent; Sale Christie's, 1989; Leger Galleries.
Description:
Black chalk with watercolour and lead white on prepared paper dipped in skimmed milk and varnished. Use of lead white, fixed with skimmed milk and then varnished was first employed by Gainsborough in the early 1770s.
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