Sophia Lane Poole
Wooded Landscape with Peasant reading a Tombstone
Oil
Size with frame: 20 x 23 ins
Size without frame: 12 x 15 ins
Size without frame: 12 x 15 ins
£ 950.00
The artist was Thomas Gainsborough’s great niece and member of the distinguished Lane branch of the family, many of whom were Arabic scholars. She states on a handwritten label to reverse that she copied the famous etching by her great uncle on June 25, 1885, while visiting the British Museum