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Waterhouse 1953
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Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse
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Painting in Britain 1530-1790
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1953
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Secondary published
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First published in 1953, the book has been through numerous subsequent editions but the first predated W.G. Constable's ground-breaking monograph on Wilson [
WGC
]. Chapter 17 devoted eight pages to an account of the artist's life, an evaluation of his work and a discussion of his 'rivals and followers' (pp.172-79). In comparison, Reynolds was given ten and Gainsborough twelve. For highlights from the insightful text see below.
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Wilson fills much the same place in the development of a tradition of landscape painting in Britain that Reynolds does in the formation of portraiture. Both appear on the scene at the same kind of moment, when the ground had already been broken for the establishment of a new style; both were the sons of clergy and had some pretensions to scholarship; both were in Italy in the early 1750s and became saturated with the Mediterranean tradition. But there the likeness ends and, in their outward circumstances, there was great disparity [p. 172]. The landscape of the Campagna did for Wilson what Michelangelo's and Raphael's works did for Reynolds during the same years. It saturated him with an ideal beauty from which his imagination was never to escape [p.174]. Wilson's own drawings on the ground are little more than memoranda, sometimes only of rocks or tombs or antique fragments. They have nothing of Claude's splendours about them and may rather be compared with the drawings such Dutchmen as Berghem must have brought back with them, which were to serve for painting Italian scenes for the rest of their lives [p. 175] It is, however, in his interpretations of the British scene that Wilson made his most original contributions to landscape painting [...] His Welsh views are the cream of his work and he saw the country with a mind rich in memories of the Roman Campagna [p. 176].
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Work of Art
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle
, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle
, Nottingham Castle Art Gallery and Museum, Nottingham
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Dover Castle
, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Commodore Thomas Smith
, Hagley Hall, Worcestershire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Admiral Thomas Smith
, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
A View of Dover (A View of Dover Castle)
, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Rome from the Villa Madama
, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
River, Road and Village
, Private Collection, Scotland
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
, ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Moor Park Hertfordshire
, Private Collection, England
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Moor Park, Distant View towards Cassiobury
, Private Collection, England
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
View from Moor Park towards Rickmansworth
, Private Collection, England
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Rome: St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum
, Tate, London
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Wilton House from the South East (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder)
, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Ego fui in Arcadia (Shepherds in the Campagna)
, Private Collection, England
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Apollo and the Seasons
, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
View of Lago d'Agnano, the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the Distance (Lago d'Agnano - I)
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio,
Wilton House, South View from Temple Copse
, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio,
Wilton House: Temple Copse with Inigo Jones's Stables, and Sir William Chambers's Triumphal Arch
, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio,
Wilton House from the East (Wilton House East View)
, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio,
Wilton House looking East with the Palladian Bridge and Salisbury Cathedral
, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Foundling Hospital, London
, The Foundling Museum, London
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
St George's Hospital, London
, The Foundling Museum, London
Ascribed to Wilson,
A View of Elizabethan Chatsworth
, Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Unransomed (The Murder)
, Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Houghton Conquest House, Bedfordshire
, Woburn Abbey
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The White Monk - II
, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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