GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
(b. 1727, Sudbury, d. 1788, London)

Wooded Landscape with Peasants in a Wagon

c. 1765
Oil on panel, 36 x 30 cm
Private collection

In a number of small paintings datable to the mid-1760s, Gainsborough experimented with simple yet grand compositions, with increasing emphasis on the foliage. His practice of making these small model landscapes as a way of thinking through and carrying forward a design had become his preferred working method.