Follower of Thomas Gainsborough

Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Cox;
By whom donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1926 (as by Thomas Gainsborough, acc. no. 806).

Oil on canvas, lined. The picture could, potentially, be on a very thin sheet of paper and laid down on canvas. The surface is somewhat flattened and covered by a yellow varnish. There are areas of thinness in the sky, especially in the upper left quadrant. There is a stable web of craquelure over the entire work which appears to have been retouched throughout the landscape. Under UV light, the majority of the work is obscured by a green fluorescing varnish. This varnish is unreadable in the lower third of the picture, though the sky and tree at right appears to have been cleaned at some point.
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