Wilson Online Reference
Conisbee 1979
Author
Philip Conisbee
Title/Description
'Pre-Romantic Plein-Air Painting'
Publisher
Art History
Country
UK
Date of Publication
December 1979
Printed/Manuscript
Secondary published
More Information
Vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 413-28, pls 23-33. The article surveys the origins and development of the practice of making oil studies from nature from the early C17 up to c.1780. Wilson is mentioned on p. 425.
Full Text
'If Vernet was the éminence grise behind Alexander Cozen's interest in painting out-of-doors, then perhaps indirectly he is behind the two 1752 pictures by Richard Wilson now in Dublin, where on the one hand we see a painter at his easel in Tivoli, [P44] and on the other we subsequently see his assistant staggering home with an enormous canvas or portfolio [P45].' (p. 425)