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| Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers) |
Artist:Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)
Date:1787
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:58 1/8 x 47 3/8 in. (147.6 x 120.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950
This is one of what were called in the eighteenth century "fancy pictures," representing peasant children in rustic settings and inspired by the Spanish artist Murillo (1617–1682). The sentiment expressed in them was pleasing to Gainsborough's contemporaries, who seem not to have remarked in the sitters' hollow-eyed, wistful expressions an undercurrent of deprivation. In 1814 one critic referred to them as the works "on which Gainsborough's fame chiefly rests."
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