Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated

Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated
Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated
Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1748
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	49 cm × 65 cm (19 in × 26 in)
Location	Gainsborough's House, Sudbury

Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough, from 1748. It is in the collection of Gainsborough's House.

Description

The painting's dimensions are 49 × 65 centimeters. It is an early landscape attributed to Great Henny, near Sudbury, Suffolk.^[1]

The painting was sold at Christie's 1985, and sold at Sotheby's in 1986. It was purchased with support from the National Art Collections Fund, for £220,000, in 1990.^[2]

Maria Peitcheva (19 March 2016). Gainsborough: 295 Colour Plates. Maria Peitcheva. pp. 178–. ISBN 978-88-925-7347-5.

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Paintings	Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (1748) Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated (1748) Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1757) Gypsy works (including The Gipsies et al.) The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767) The Blue Boy (c. 1770) Maria, Lady Eardley (c. 1770) Portrait of David Garrick (1770) Woman in Blue (c. 1770–1780) Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham (1777) Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78) Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas (c. 1780) Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich (1783) Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785) The Market Cart (1786) Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1785–1787) Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) Cottage Door works (including The Woodcutter's Return et al.)
Museums	Gainsborough's House
Related	Humphrey Gainsborough (brother) Kitty (1945 film) Gainsborough (crater)