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The Guardian - UK
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Jonathan Jones

Rural mystery: Thomas Gainsborough's The Market Cart

Thomas Gainsborough's The Market Cart, 1786
The silvery mass of cloud that blossoms in the sky above towering trees lends a heartbreaking beauty to this late landscape by one of Britain’s greatest painters. Gainsborough caught the mood of early Romanticism when he forsook his high-spending portrait clients to paint this tranquil yet majestic rural scene in 1786. In his paintings there is a sense of air and atmosphere, and also a mystery. Who are these country folk? The question hangs there as it might in a Wordsworth poem Illustration: The National Gallery, London
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