Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
attributed to <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gainsborough-dupont-162" aria-label="More by Gainsborough Dupont" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Gainsborough Dupont</a>
Cottage Children
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: processes and functions
boy
carrying / holding
children
firewood
girl
heating and lighting
hill
landscape
objects
people
wooded
<p>This is a smaller version of a painting which Thomas Gainsborough created in 1787, towards the end of his life. This version is attributed to Gainsborough’s nephew and studio assistant Gainsborough Dupont.</p><p>Subjects like this were meant to inspire compassion among people of Sensibility, who may in truth have been far removed from the realities of rural poverty. In fact, the original painting belonged to a nobleman, Lord Porchester.</p><p>Are such sentimental images of poverty exploitative, or do they present a noble, and sometimes even challenging, vision of the countryside?</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
19 July 2004 – 27 June 2005
2005-06-27
1 March 2004
2004-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-07-19
Sensibility
Collection based display
Cottage Children
support: 457 × 356 mm
frame: 630 × 544 × 84 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<span class="text0">This is a smaller version of a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> which </span><span class="text13">Thomas Gainsborough created in 1787, </span><span class="text0">towards the end of his life. This version is attributed to      Gainsborough’s nephew and studio assistant Gainsborough Dupont. </span>
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<span class="text0">Subjects like this were meant to inspire compassion      among people of Sensibility, who may in truth have been far removed </span><span class="text13">from the realities of rural poverty. In  fact, the original      painting belonged  to a nobleman, Lord Porchester.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text0">Are such sentimental images of poverty exploitative, or      do they present a noble, and sometimes even challenging, vision  of the      countryside? </span>
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actions: processes and functions boy carrying / holding children firewood girl heating and lighting hill landscape objects people wooded