A Couple in a Landscape Reynolds [it] deserves notice only from

[it] deserves notice only from its association with a great name

there is much uncertainty in distinguishing between the works of father and son

Attributed in early catalogues to Van Dyck but catalogued in 1980 as After Cornelius Jonson the elder

This picture was probably painted when Both was in Rome

The provenance of this picture

A Couple in a Landscape Reynolds [it] deserves notice only fromDated by Waterhouse to the mid 1750s and identified as a companion to the 'Girl seated in a Park' in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. An X ray reveals an underlying half length female portrait. Gainsborough turned the canvas upside down before repainting it with the present composition.