Wooded Upland Landscape
Thomas Gainsborough
probably 1783
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
47 3/8 x 58 1/8 in. (120.3 x 147.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1906
Accession Number
06.1279
Tags
LandscapesWagons
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough · 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough was born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of nine children to wool dealer John Gainsborough and his wife Mary. Demonstrating prodigious talent from childhood, he sketched landscapes in the local woods and fields, fostering his lifelong passion for the genre. At age thirteen, he moved to London, where he trained under the French engraver and illustrator Hubert-Fr...