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Simon 1981
Author
Robin Simon
Title/Description
'Richard Wilson's
Meleager and Atalanta
'
Publisher
The Burlington Magazine
Country
London, UK
Date of Publication
July 1981
Printed/Manuscript
Secondary published
Source Institution
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Vol. 123, no. 940, pp. 414-17. Following detailed visual examination of P163
Meleager and Atalanta
at Tate, London the author confirms that John Hamilton Mortimer repainted in whole or in part the recumbent figure in the left foreground and the two standing figures with spears in the right foreground but not the group on the left. Simon argues that, though done at the request of Robert Sayer, the owner of the painting and publisher of the subsequent engraving [E46], the introduction of Mortimer's high-lighted bodies transformed the tonality of the whole composition for the worse. Wilson himself believed that Mortimer had ruined 'the unity of effect' that he had achieved. The article concludes with a discussion of a drawing of the central group of figures and background usually believed to be by Mortimer but here attributed to Joseph Farington (NWD406)
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Work of Art
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Meleager and Atalanta
, Tate, London
Prints
William Woollett (1735-1785) and Benjamin Thomas Pouncy after Wilson,
Meleager and Atalanta
, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
Richard Earlom (1743-1822) after Wilson,
Meleager and Atalanta
, The British Museum
William Woollett (1735-1785) and Benjamin Thomas Pouncy after Wilson,
Meleager and Atalanta
, The British Museum
Drawings
Ascribed to John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779) after Wilson,
Meleager and Atalanta
, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
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