River Landscape with a Bridge and a Church
Thomas Gainsborough · 1781 · black chalk with white gouache on laid paper
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About this picture
River Landscape with a Bridge and a Church is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1781. Black chalk with white gouache on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“River Landscape with a Bridge and a Church” (1781) 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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