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The Cock Tavern, Cheam, Surrey
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Tate, London 2014
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Ascribed to Wilson
Title
The Cock Tavern, Cheam, Surrey
Date
c.1745 (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
43.6 x 74 cm
Dimensions
17 1/8 x 29 1/16 in.
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Tate, London. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
N03136
Wilson Online Reference
P15
Description
The view is probably south towards Banstead Downs, Surrey. Cheam Common opens out beyond it, while in the distance to the right the building is probably Cheam House.
The view is probably south towards Banstead Downs, Surrey. Cheam Common opens out beyond it, while in the distance to the right the building is probably Cheam House.
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Provenance
Bequeathed by the Revd Augustus Stopford Brooke, 1916
Bequeathed by the Revd Augustus Stopford Brooke, 1916
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Techniques and materials
Primed and stretched canvas. It has a dark ground. The facture, especially of the tavern, trees and water at the right looks later, perhaps nineteenth-century. The style of paint application is Wilson's but some of the greens appear more modern.
Primed and stretched canvas. It has a dark ground. The facture, especially of the tavern, trees and water at the right looks later, perhaps nineteenth-century. The style of paint application is Wilson's but some of the greens appear more modern.
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The Cock Tavern was probably the Cock Inn, a well-known country coaching inn on the London to Brighton road, located in Sutton, the neighbouring parish to Cheam. It stood beside an unexceptional area of common land about 12 miles south-west of central London. In 1755 the inn became the Cock Hotel, catering for the newly-constructed London to Brighton turnpike.
The Cock Tavern was probably the Cock Inn, a well-known country coaching inn on the London to Brighton road, located in Sutton, the neighbouring parish to Cheam. It stood beside an unexceptional area of common land about 12 miles south-west of central London. In 1755 the inn became the Cock Hotel, catering for the newly-constructed London to Brighton turnpike.
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Thomas Rowlandson, <i>The Cock Hotel, Sutton</i>, etching and aquatint, 1789
Thomas Rowlandson,
The Cock Hotel, Sutton
, etching and aquatint, 1789
Critical commentary
As Solkin has noted, this was apparently the most popular of Wilson's early landscapes, to judge by the fact that it survives in four versions. Yet <i>prima facie</i> P15 does not look like Wilson. The composition and colour are close to Esias van de Velde's <span class="italic">Wooded River Landscape </span> (Sotheby's 14 April 2011 (108)). Certainly the work shows the artist at his most Netherlandish and was probably intended for a new group of middle-class buyers whose taste in landscape tended more towards Dutch-style views than to the grandiose pastorals of the classical tradition.
As Solkin has noted, this was apparently the most popular of Wilson's early landscapes, to judge by the fact that it survives in four versions. Yet
prima facie
P15 does not look like Wilson. The composition and colour are close to Esias van de Velde's
Wooded River Landscape
(Sotheby's 14 April 2011 (108)). Certainly the work shows the artist at his most Netherlandish and was probably intended for a new group of middle-class buyers whose taste in landscape tended more towards Dutch-style views than to the grandiose pastorals of the classical tradition.
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Bibliography
Fletcher 1908, repr. opp. p. 160; WGC, p, 171, under pl. 30c; Solkin 1982, pp. 31-33, 150; Waites 2012, pp. 55-56, fig. 18.
Fletcher 1908, repr. opp. p. 160; WGC, p, 171, under pl. 30c; Solkin 1982, pp. 31-33, 150; Waites 2012, pp. 55-56, fig. 18.
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
<a href="http://www.calmview2.eu/paulmelloncentre/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=WGC%2f1%2f1%2f34" title="WGC/1/1/34" class="rewritten">WGC/1/1/34</a>
WGC/1/1/34
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More Information
Described by WGC as 'a smaller version (16 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.)' of P15B in the Tate, London collection. Compared with P15B, this painting omits the table, hollyhocks, sunflowers and figures in the foreground and the figures beyond the water.
Described by WGC as 'a smaller version (16 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.)' of P15B in the Tate, London collection. Compared with P15B, this painting omits the table, hollyhocks, sunflowers and figures in the foreground and the figures beyond the water.
Condition/Conservation
Dimensions of frame: 68 x 97 cm. Surface cleaned in frame, July 2005. Kate Lowry has noted: Original canvas relined. Turnovers lost at the time of lining. Ground is dark in tone. The greens are not convincing as Wilson. The tree near the inn is poorly defined and there is no reserve for the tree against the sky. The water at lower right is glazed and rather blurred.
Dimensions of frame: 68 x 97 cm. Surface cleaned in frame, July 2005.
Kate Lowry has noted: Original canvas relined. Turnovers lost at the time of lining. Ground is dark in tone. The greens are not convincing as Wilson. The tree near the inn is poorly defined and there is no reserve for the tree against the sky. The water at lower right is glazed and rather blurred.
Illustrations of the Work
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01/04/2020
01/04/2020
Work of Art
Versions
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Cock Tavern, Cheam Common
, UK Government Art Collection
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Cock Tavern at Cheam
, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
Biographies
The Revd Stopford Augustus Brooke, 1832-1916
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
David Solkin,
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
Beaumont Fletcher,
Richard Wilson, R.A.
Ian Waites,
Common Land in English Painting
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