Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)

The Property of the Trustees of the Late Sir R.V. Sutton, Bt.

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Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)

A sleeping Rustic on a Bank with a Grey Horse tethered to a blasted Tree, in a wooded landscape

25¼ x 30in. (64.1 x 76.2cm.)

Provenance

probably Francis Chaplin, M.P., d. 1838
Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Bt. (1799-1855) and by descent

Literature

E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, no. 850
J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1982, I, pp. 82, 84, II no. 63, illus.

Exhibited

Nottingham University Art Gallery, Landscape by Thomas Gainsborough, November 1962, no. 10

Lot Essay

The composition of the present picture, dated by Waterhouse to circa 1755-7 is echoed in a drawing made two or three years later by the artist (see J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London and New Haven, 1970, II, no. 233 pl.70). The influence of the Dutch Landscape painters of the Seventeenth Century is seen in the motif of the White Horse, inspired by Wouwerman, and the peasant sleeping on the bank, inspired by Jan Wijnants

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