Country Life

From childhood and beyond

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Early Gainsborou­gh: From the obscurity of a Country Town’, at Gainsborou­gh’s House, 46, Gainsborou­gh Street, Sudbury, Suffolk until February 17 (01787 372958; www.gainsborou­gh.org), sheds light on the young artist through 40 works, including Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Seated (above, 1746–47), showing the early influence of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, as well as portraits and etchings from the 1750s. Born in the market town of Sudbury, Gainsborou­gh went to London aged 13 to study under Gravelot and Hayman, returning to Suffolk, newly married, in his early twenties. The exhibition presents new discoverie­s—notably that two family members were the victims of revenge killings—and is complement­ed by the paintings from different periods and places of his life displayed in the museum that was his childhood home.

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