Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-barker-of-bath-19" aria-label="More by Thomas Barker of Bath" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Barker of Bath</a>
Landscape with Figures and Sheep
Purchased 1890
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
cloud
dog - non-specific
group
groups
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
hill
horse
landscape
man
people
riding
rocky
sheep
society
storm
transport: land
weather
woman
wooded
work and occupations
<p>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.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
22 October 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
22 October 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
2001-10-22
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-22
Landscape and Empire
Collection based display
1 April 2003 – 12 July 2004
2004-07-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-01
Images of Rural Life
Collection based display
11 July 2005 – 18 November 2007
2007-11-18
11 July 2005 – 18 November 2007
2007-11-18
2005-07-11
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-11
The British Landscape
Collection based display
11 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
11 September 2019 – 16 February 2020
2020-02-16
2019-09-11
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
29 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-29
External
2019-09-11
Gainsborough to Turner: The Golden Age of English Painting
Loan-out
Landscape with Figures and Sheep
support: 813 × 1130 mm
frame: 1140 × 1468 × 137 mm
Purchased 1890
<p>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. </p>

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adults agriculture and fishing animals: mammals cloud dog - non-specific group groups herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess hill horse landscape man people riding rocky sheep society storm transport: land weather woman wooded work and occupations