Live Auction 5677Old Master & British Paintings Day Sale
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Lot 189

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)

A wooded landscape with a peasant, a horse and cattle

Closed4 July 2012

Price Realised

GBP 34,850

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
A wooded landscape with a peasant, a horse and cattle
oil on canvas
25½ x 30 1/8 in. (64.8 x 76.5 cm.)

(Probably) Francis Chaplin, M.P. (d. 1838).
Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Bt. (1799-1855), and by descent until sold by the Trustees of the Late Sir R.V. Sutton, Bt.; Christie's, London, 15 April 1994, lot 39 (£28,000 to the present owner).

Specialist note

The composition of this painting, which is dated by Waterhouse to c. 1755-7, is echoed in a drawing made two or three years later (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 17th century, notably Wouwerman and Wijnants, is evident in this early work. Gainsborough had already used the motif of the peasant on the bank in his painting of Landguard Fort (see Hayes, op. cit., 1982, no. 37).