, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Study of Horses under a Tree, c. 1800
Thomas Rowlandson
British, 1756
- 1827
pen, brush and brown ink with blue wash over graphite on wove paper ?, laid down on laid paper
26.7 x 37 cm
Purchased 1924
National Gallery of Canada (no. 3120)
Rowlandson's peaceful nature studies offer a respite from the often boisterous comedy of his satirical pictures. They are drawn from life - unlike the imaginary shenanigans of his comic scenes - and recall the pastoral landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough and other contemporaries of the artist.
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