Where Is Forest (Cornard Wood)? See It at National Gallery

Q: Where is this painting?

It's at the National Gallery in London.

Q: When did Gainsborough paint this?

This is an early work from the 1740s, before Gainsborough became primarily a portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough created it as part of the British artistic tradition.

Q: What's significant about Cornard Wood?

Gainsborough's Cornard Wood is one of his earliest major landscapes, painted near his hometown of Sudbury in Suffolk. It shows Dutch landscape influence before he developed his lighter, more fluid later style.

Thomas Gainsborough completed this early landscape of Cornard Wood in his native Suffolk with naturalistic observation influenced by Dutch landscape painting. The composition captures the English countryside with fresh, direct vision.

This is among Gainsborough's earliest major landscapes, showing his talent before he focused primarily on portraits. It hangs at the National Gallery in London.

It's at the National Gallery in London.

This is an early work from the 1740s, before Gainsborough became primarily a portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough created it as part of the British artistic tradition.

Gainsborough's Cornard Wood is one of his earliest major landscapes, painted near his hometown of Sudbury in Suffolk. It shows Dutch landscape influence before he developed his lighter, more fluid later style.

Forest (Cornard Wood)

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