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A Wooded Landscape with a Horseman

Thomas Gainsborough, 1765–1770

The Higgins Bedford, Bedford

Though professionally successful as a portraitist, Gainsborough regarded landscape as his personal vocation as an artist. The lively feeling of light breaking through trees in this picture is characteristic of his work, especially in the 1760s. The motif of the solitary horseman occurs in many of Gainsborough's watercolours and drawings in this period, and acts as a foil to the vigorous treatment of the trees and sky.

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Title of artwork, date

A Wooded Landscape with a Horseman, 1765–1770

Date supported

1990

Medium and material

Watercolour, gouache, pencil, & chalk

Dimensions

24 x 30 cm

Grant

6000

Total cost

54000

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