Wooded Landscape with Village Scene

1. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861-1943), Oxford by 1939 [Woodall 1939]. Sold by the Fine Art Society to J. Leslie Wright (1862–1954), 1948 [Hayes 1971]; bequeathed to the Birmingham City Art Gallery with life-interest to his daughter, Mrs. Dorian A. Williamson, 1953 [Hayes 1971]; Mrs. Dorian A. Williamson, until at least 1971 [Hayes 1971]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 24, 1977, lot 112, to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA. Jan. 1978 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Royal Academy, 1772, cat. 99.
• London, Leicester Galleries, "Selected Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Late Sir Michael Sadler," Jan.–Feb., 1944, p. 12, cat. 64.
• London, Royal Academy, "Masters of the British Water-Colour—The J. Leslie Wright Collection," Oct.-Nov. 1949, cat. 79.
• London, Arts Council of Great Britain, "The Romantic Movement," July-Sept. 1959, cat. 698.
• London, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Gainsborough Drawings," 1960–61, cat. 24, pl. IV.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 70-71, cat. 42 (ill.).

• Mary Woodall, Gainsborough’s Landscape Drawings (London, 1939), p. 126, cat. 282.
• John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough (London, 1971), p. 189, cat. 347, pl. 286.
• John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, vol. 2 (Ithaca, NY, 1982), pp. 444 and 445, fig. 100a.
• Jonathan P. Derow, “Gainsborough’s Varnished Watercolor Technique,” Master Drawings, 26:3 (Autumn 1988), pp. 269, 271 nos. 26, 49.
• Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 70-71, cat. 42 (ill.).

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A Boy with a Cat—Morning

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Lieutenant Colonel Paul Pechell (1724–1800)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wooded Landscape with a Man Crossing a Bridge

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Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow

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Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819)

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Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832)

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