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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-88)

A figure in a landscape

c.1775-80

RCIN 453587

Although Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most fashionable portrait painters of his era, he professed to have found landscape a more sympathetic subject. He produced a large number of free chalk sketches of landscape scenes. His contemporaries record that Gainsborough would construct three-dimensional landscape models in his studio, using sand and clay for the earth, broccoli for distant trees and lumps of coal for rocks.

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