Popular 1800s Thomas Gainsborough Engraving “The Market Cart” Framed Signed COA$284.00
Popular 1800s Thomas Gainsborough Engraving “The Market Cart” Framed Signed COA
$284.00
Artist: Sir Thomas Gainsborough (English, (baptised 1727 – 1788)
Title: The Market Cart
Medium: Antique steel engraving on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by Master Engraver Henry Robinson (fl. 1827-72).
Year: 1834
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size – 4 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 x 15 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The market cart is laden with fresh produce. On the right is a woodcutter, a favorite motif of Gainsborough’s, but the composition is dominated by the grandeur of the trees. This is one of Gainsborough’s last landscapes. It was first exhibited in the artist’s house in Pall Mall in 1786, the same year it was painted. Gainsborough added the figure of the woodman gathering faggots the following year.
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterized by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
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