After Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)

A shepherd with his flock in an extensive landscape

Details

After Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
A shepherd with his flock in an extensive landscape
black chalk heightened with white, on buff paper
10 x 13½ in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm.); and An unframed drawing of sailing craft on an estuary from the circle of Thomas Gainsborough (2)

Provenance

with Agnew's, London, 2001, no. 6.

Literature

H. Belsey, 'A Second Supplement to John Hayes's The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, Master Drawings, New York, 2008, vol. 46, p. 448, under no. 604.

Lot Essay

The present drawing appears to be a copy of a drawing now at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia. Gainsborough explored variations of the same compositions particularly during the 1780s.

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