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Gainsborough engravings in the Tate cannot have been produced by the artist
Scholar Dr Susan Sloman has reattributed three wooded landscapes dating from the 1780s to the hand of artist s nephew Gainsborough Dupont
Wooded River Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep
Credit: Peter J Stone - Photography
The Tate and the British Museum are among institutions worldwide that boast landscape prints by Thomas Gainsborough, the great 18th-century British master. Three of those prints should no longer be attributed to him, according to new research.
Dr Susan Sloman, a Gainsborough scholar, has reattributed three wooded landscapes dating from the 1780s to the hand of Gainsborough’s nephew and sole studio assistant, Gainsborough Dupont.