Thomas Barker of Bath

Landscape with Figures and Sheep

c.1815

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Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France): Gainsborough to Turner: The Golden Age of English Painting

Artist: Thomas Barker of Bath 1769–1847
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 813 x 1130 mm
frame: 1140 x 1468 x 137 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1890
Reference: N01306

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Thomas Barker was known for copying and imitating the work of Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788). Here, Barker has followed Gainsborough in his choice of subject, with a peasant family travelling through the landscape. Such images referred to contemporary debates about the changing rural economy, and its influence on peasant life.

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