Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen seated on a Bank near a Pool

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)

Gainsborough's House

1746 - 1747

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.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 49 x 66 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £30000 ( Total: £220,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1991
• Vendor: Robert Holden Ltd

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.

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