Thomas GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788)
 

OPEN LANDSCAPE AT THE EDGE OF A WOOD, c.1744-5
Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 37 cm
H.1955/76

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1878.
London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1885.
Ipswich, Fine Art Club, 1887.
London, Loan Collection of Pictures, 1892.
Nottingham, 1962.
Kenwood, The Origins of Landscape Painting in England, 1967.

Literature
Fulcher, p.237.
William Martin Conway, The Artistic Development of Reynolds and Gainsborough, 1886, p.77.
Armstong, 1898, p.205.
Armstrong, 1904, p.287.
Waterhouse, no. 880.
J. Hayes, The Landscape paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, no. 3, vol. 2, 1982

Provenance
George Frost
Thomas Green
Green Sale, Chistie's, 1874.
Mrs N.
J. P. Heseltine, 1878.
Heseltine Sale, Sotheby's, May 1935.
Gooden and Fox
Ernest Cook
The E. E. Cook Collection, presented through the National Art Collections Fund, 1955.
 

WOODLAND SCENE
Drawing, 26.1 x 36.2 cm
101372

Provenance
Presented from the Herbert Powell Collection, through the National Art Collections Fund, 1969.