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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A.

(1727-1788)

River Landscape

River Landscape
Oil on canvas
33 x 38 inches
Acquired by a Private Collector, UK

Provenance

Samuel Woodburn

Benjamin Gibbons

Arthur Tooth

Leger Galleries

Private Collection, USA

 

Literature

Ellis Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, no. 837

John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1982, no.57 

 

The composition, with a prominent ruined building on the hillside and the distance closed by mountains, is unique in Gainsborough's early work, and is evidently inspired by such Berchems as those formerly in the Cook collection, where the gesture of the woman is also similar.  Rural lovers, however, remain the subject of the picture.

 

John Hayes dated the present work to c.1754. 

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    THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. An Open Landscape With A Herdsman Driving Cows And Sheep
    Oil on canvas 21½ x 29½ in (54 x 76 cm)
    Acquired by a Private Collector, USA
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    THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. Open Landscape with Drover and Packhorses
    Grey washes and white and cream bodycolour on brown prepared paper, presented on its original presentation mount 8 ½ x 7 ¼ inches
    Acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
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    THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES AND CATTLE AT A POOL
    Black and white chalk with stump 9 5/8 x 12 ¼ inches (24.3 x 31.3 cm) Engraved: In soft ground etching and aquatint by Gainsborough and published by J.&J. Boydell as no.4 in a series of twelve on 1 August 1797
    Acquired by Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
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