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A Wooded Landscape with Horsemen
© Gainsborough's House
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Gainsborough's House
1775
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.
- Medium: chalk, watercolour, lead white on paper
- Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £15000 ( Total: £87,500)
- ArtFunded in: 1991
- Vendor: Leger Galleries
Provenance
Goodenough Earle; by descent to F. Wheat Newton; Agnew & Son; G.D.Widener; By descent; Sale Christie's, 1989; Leger Galleries.
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