Rocky Landscape
About this artwork
This late work, probably exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1783, demonstrates the artist’s increasing interest in landscape painting. Gainsborough went to the Lake District in the same year intending to 'mount all the Lakes at the next exhibition in the great stile' and whether painted before or after his tour, this picture makes the first of his 'sublime' mountain scenes aiming at the grandeur of Salvator Rosa and Gaspard Dughet. This painting was not sold until after Gainsborough’s death when it was purchased in 1789 by Earl Gower, Marquess of Stafford and subsequently became part of the Sutherland collection, much of which is now on view at the Scottish National Gallery.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) English
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title:Rocky Landscape
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date created:About 1783
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:119.40 x 147.30 cm; Framed: 142.10 x 171.00 x 13.50 cm / 49.00 kg
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credit line:Purchased with the aid of a Treasury Grant 1962
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accession number:NG 2253
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough
Gainsborough excelled as a portrait and landscape painter. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and trained in London. He became a highly successful artist, first in Ipswich, then in Bath. He concentrated on portraiture to make a living and continued to build on the grand manner of Van Dyck, but also...