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A View on the Thames
Tate, London 2014
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Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
A View on the Thames
Before 1750 (undated)
Oil on canvas
61 x 76.2 cm
24 x 30 in.
N01889
P28
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons to the National Gallery with a life interest of Mrs Richard Garnons Jr, 1854; transferred from the National Gallery to the Tate 1955
The title is speculative and the composition is atypical, suggesting, amongst other things, an early date
1889
Tate Gallery Catalogue 1929 (as School); Davies 1946, pp. 177-78, cat. 1889; WGC, pp. 130, 188, pl. 57b
Richard and Catherine Garnons were children of Richard Garnons, brother of Catherine Jones of Colomendy Hall, a cousin of Wilson.
Dimensions with frame: 80 x 90 cm. Cleaned 1934 (National Gallery Report 1935). Not relined (1956). Cleaned, retouched, revarnished and marouflaged onto synthetic panel, December 1957 by B. Heineberg.