© Gainsborough's House
Study for Upland Landscape
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Location: Gainsborough's House
Date: 1783
Materials: black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 26 x 36 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £30,000 (Total: £75,000)
Vendor: Spink-Leger Ltd
Review number: 4954 (2001)
Provenance:
M. Knoedler & Co., New York; Pouce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico by 1962; with Spink-Leger, 2000.
Description:
Depicts wooded hills with a figure standing by a pond in the foreground. It is closely related to the finished painting, now in Munich, Germany. Its high finish suggests it was used to finalise the commission of the painting from the Prince of Wales.
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