A Grand Landscape

Artist Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)

Dateearly 1760s

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 146.1 x 157.5 cm (57 1/2 x 62 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

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Object number1919.1

Label TextGainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the son of a cloth merchant. Facts about his artistic training are obscure, but in 1759 he moved to Bath and immediately became successful as a portraitist. He moved to London in 1774 where he was well received. This large landscape was probably painted in the early 1760s. It shows Gainsborough working in a manner which derives from Flemish Baroque landscape painting, placing a complex, swirling composition within a square format. It would have been painted in the studio, as an ideal landscape, and not from nature.ProvenanceThomas Todd, Inverness; Joseph Gillott, Birmingham and London, sold at Christie's April 27, 1872, cat. no. 284; Warren Cox, London; Tooth, London, 1892; Sir Horatio Davies, London; Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, June 20 1895; sold to Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, October 27, 1902 (according to bill preserved in Taft Museum, Cincinnati.); Scott and Fowles, New York; sold to the Worcester Art Museum via Scott and Fowles, January 11, 1919. Scott & Fowles, New York NY

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