No less than 25 landscape drawings from the Royal Collection recently attributed to Thomas Gainsborough go on display in Ireland for the first time today. Young Gainsborough: Rediscovered Landscape Drawings at the National Gallery of Ireland until June 12 features work produced in the late 1740’s when the artist was in his twenties. Previously believed to be by Sir Edwin Landseer the art historian Lindsay Stainton identified one as a study for Gainsborough’s most celebrated landscape painting Cornard Wood c1748 and they have all been reattributed. The preparatory work will hang alongside the newly conserved Cornard Wood on loan from the National Gallery in London.
