© Gainsborough's House
Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen seated on a Bank near a Pool
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Location: Gainsborough's House
Date: 1746 - 1747
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 49 x 66 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £30,000 (Total: £220,000)
Vendor: Robert Holden Ltd
Review number: 3616 (1991)
Provenance:
Reverend Rackett; by bequest to Dorothy Solly; by descent to Col.R. J .N. Solly; by descent; Sold Christie's 1985; Sold Sotheby's 1986.
Description:
Depicts many Gainsborough's early landscape themes: sunlight upon a village, compositional use of clouds. The church tower bears some resemblance to that of St Andrew's in the neighbouring hamlet of Great Cornard.
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