A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · mid-1780s · watercolor, ink and oil paint heightened with white chalk ("Bristol lead white")
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About this picture
A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool is a CC0 drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788), dated mid-1780s. Watercolor, ink and oil paint heightened with white chalk ("Bristol lead white"). The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool” (mid-1780s) is either a portrait of a fashionable sitter or a landscape Gainsborough assembled from outdoor studies.
About the artist
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was an English painter of portraits and landscapes. The sitters are fashionable. The landscapes were often invented from studies rather than painted as one view.
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