A Storm with a Man under a Tree

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Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond

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Artist

Ascribed to Wilson

Title

A Storm with a Man under a Tree

Date

c.1775 (undated)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Metric: 38 x 54 cm
Imperial: 14 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.

Collection

Private Collection, England

Accession Number

BB32

Wilson Online Reference

NWP184

Exhibited

Brighton 1920 (36 - Landscape); Bangor 1925 (74) Landscape in the Campagna; London 1925 (22 - Italian Landscape); Manchester 1925 (18 - Italian Landscape); Exeter 1946 (60 - Landscape. River winding through a Valley); Birmingham 1948-49 (26); London 1949 (25); London 1968 (22); Conwy 2009 (26); Weston 2011 (28); Gainsborough House 2014 (unnumbered)

Provenance

Benjamin Booth; Revd R.S. Booth; Lady Ford; Richard Ford; Sir Francis Clare Ford; John G. Ford; Sir Brinsley Ford; thence by descent

Signature/inscription

Unsigned; no inscription

Subject

Booth suggested the location as Wales but it has also been seen as the Roman Campagna. However, the tree at the right, perhaps intended as an oak, is rather more British than Italian in appearance.

Related Paintings

Pendant: William Hodges: Northop, Flint, Private Collection, England

Critical commentary

A late work but the dating can only be tentative and the authorship has been questioned, with William Hodges proposed rather than Wilson.

Bibliography

Booth Notes Doc. 9 (19); WGC, pp. 92, 232, pl. 132b; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 18, BB32; Lord 2009 (26); Williams 2011, pp. 38-39, repr.

Link to WG Constable Archive Record

WGC/1/1/148

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