Cottage Children #1
by Thomas Gainsborough
Title
Cottage Children #1
Artist
Thomas Gainsborough
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Cottage Children 1787 by Thomas Gainsborough
This is one of what were called in the eighteenth century "fancy pictures," representing peasant children in rustic settings and inspired by the Spanish artist Murillo (1617–1682). The sentiment expressed in them was pleasing to Gainsborough's contemporaries, who seem not to have remarked in the sitters' hollow-eyed, wistful expressions an undercurrent of deprivation. In 1814 one critic referred to them as the works "on which Gainsborough's fame chiefly rests."
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