Wooded Landscape with a Boy Leading a Donkey and Dog, and an Extensive Panorama with Buildings and Distant Hills

early 1760s

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	11 7/8 x 13 1/2 in. (30.2 x 34.3 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.67
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	On View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape with a Boy Leading a Donkey and Dog, and an Extensive Panorama with Buildings and Distant Hills, early 1760s, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.67

Select Bibliography

Leger Galleries. British Painting. May 4-June 2, 1989. London: Leger Galleries. 1989. French, Anne, ed. The Earl and Countess Howe by Gainsborough: A Bicentenary Exhibition. Iveagh Bequest, Hampstead, England, August-October, 1988. London: English Heritage. 1988. Hayes, John. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. 2 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1982. Hayes, John. Gainsborough and Rowlandson: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published privately, 1998. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

The artist, given to Somerville; Ann Vannam Somerville; John A. F. Somerville, by descent, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 15 Mar. 1978, no. 119, sold to British Rail; British Rail Pension Fund, London (in 1978); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 Mar. 1989, no. 70, sold to Leger; [Leger Galleries, London, 1989, sold to Manton, Mar. 1989]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1989–d. 2005); Diana Morton, his daughter, by descent (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.