Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Fallen Tree
Thomas Gainsborough
- Date
- c. 1750–53
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Though best known for his magnificent portraits, Thomas Gainsborough preferred painting “landskips” (as he called them) and played a key role in establishing the importance of landscape in British art. As a young artist he enjoyed the beauties of his native Suffolk countryside, walking the picturesque landscape of the Stour Valley and Cornard Wood with sketchbook in hand. The distant spire behind the fallen tree and grazing cows can be identified as the small parish church of Saint Andrews in Great Cornard, just a kilometer from Gainsborough's house in his hometown of Sudbury (Suffolk). England, Europe
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