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Richard Wilson

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/saam_1956.11.65
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Richard Wilson was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape art and worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country". In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's work compiled by Paul Spencer-Longhurst is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (15)

Cader Idris, with the Mawddach River

1769 · oil on canvas

Framed: 105.5 x 120.5 x 7 cm (41 9/16 x 47 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 89.8 x 105.5 cm (35 3/8 x 41 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Roman Campagna with Figures

1756 · Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper (faded to brown)

16.9 × 21.6 cm (6 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery

1756 · Oil on canvas

16 7/8 x 21 1/8 in. (42.9 x 53.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Banks of the River Dee near Eaton Hall, Cheshire

1754 · Black and white chalk on blue laid paper, laid down on card

18.7 × 30.4 cm (7 3/8 × 12 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Italiaans landschap met enige figuren op een weg

1754 · brush on chalk, paper

diameter: 105 cm, height: 125 cm, width: 127 cm

Rijksmuseum

View of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum

1754 · Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on blue paper; laid down on original paper mount with purple border

Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 11/16 in. (28.5 × 42.4 cm) Mount: 13 3/4 in. × 19 9/16 in. (35 × 49.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Italiaans landschap met twee figuren in een park

1754 · brush on chalk, paper

width: 127 cm, height: 124 cm, diameter: 105 cm

Rijksmuseum

House of Pompey at Albano

1753 · Black chalk touched with white chalk on gray paper

Sheet: 8 5/8 x 15 in. (21.9 x 38.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View of the Colosseum

1751 · Black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray paper; sheet laid down on pink paper mount with double border in brown ink

Sheet: 10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in. (25.9 × 19.5 cm) Mount: 11 3/4 in. × 9 3/8 in. (29.9 × 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

'Il Mascherone,' a Rocaille Fountain on the Grounds of the Villa Borghese

1749 · Black chalk with touches of opaque white watercolor on blue laid paper

20 × 23.5 cm (7 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Italianate Landscape with Bathers

1734 · Black chalk on blue wove paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

32.6 × 40.9 cm (12 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pine in Foreground

1734 · Black chalk on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

9.9 × 12.3 cm (3 15/16 × 4 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape with Woman and Cows (recto); Sketch of a Landscape (verso)

1734 · Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto), and black chalk (verso), on blue laid paper

26 × 35.2 cm (10 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1734 · Graphite on ivory laid paper

37.2 × 26.8 cm (14 11/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Welsh Landscape with a Ruined Castle by a Lake

1733 · Oil on wood

7 1/2 x 8 5/8 in. (19.1 x 21.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (4)

15 published of 15 catalogued · 14 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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The Met
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Rijksmuseum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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3 entries · 1 sources

Italiaans landschap met twee figuren in een park
1754 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Italiaans landschap met enige figuren op een weg
1754 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Cader Idris, with the Mawddach River
1769 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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