Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded landscape with peasants resting, and a distant cottage



Thomas Gainsborough - Wooded landscape with peasants resting, and a distant cottage



Thomas Gainsborough
Wooded landscape with peasants resting, and a distant cottage
35.6 x 30.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Sale Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2018


Provenance

Joshua Kirby (1716–74);
The Rev. Henry Scott Trimmer;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 17 March 1860, lot 51, for £15–4s–6d. to Rutley;
G.A.F. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P. (1821–91);
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 8–18 July 1891, 4th day, lot 549, for £52–10s–6d. to Gooden;
Thence by inheritance to the present owner
Sale Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2018, nr. 208

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