MFAH Romantic Art

I recently visited the MFAH to see paintings from the era I'm studying, the Romantic Era. The painting I chose to write about is "Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle" by Thomas Gainsborough. I feel it really represents the Romantic Era well. One big reason for that is that one of its central subjects is the cows. See, in the Romantic Era, big cities started to emerge. Therefore, people often reminisced about simple country life and nature. The cattle in the picture clearly represent this, because of course cattle farming is a simple lifestyle.