| The Watering Place | |
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| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | c.1777 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 147.3 cm× 180.3 cm(58.0 in× 71.0 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
The Watering Place is a 1777 landscape painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. [1] [2]
It was shown at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1777. It was one seven paintings Gainsborough exhibited at the show, in a comeback after several years boycotting the Academy due to their rejection of his portrait of Countess of Waldergrave at the Exhibition of 1773. It was widely acclaimed. Horace Walpole described it as being "in the style of Rubens and by far the finest landscape ever painted in England and equal to the Great Masters". [3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery in London. It was donated to the gallery by the Lord Farnborough in 1827. [4]
