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    Hastings
    Name
    Captain Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854
    Connection to Wilson
    Printmaker
    Biographical Details
    Thomas Hastings was a collector of customs in Liverpool and was known as Captain Hastings. Born Thomas Barnett, he changed his surname to Hastings in 1812. Officer in the British Army 1795-1811, he was made Captain from 1799. He was an amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolour artist and etcher of landscapes, topographical views, marine subjects and coast scenes. As an etcher, he was good enough to become an Associate of the Liverpool Academy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1813 and 1821 and at the British Institution in 1823.

    Between 1820 and 1824, Hastings made 40 etchings of paintings by Wilson (two owned by himself and 38 either in or previously in the celebrated collection formed by Benjamin Booth, and inherited by Lady Ford). These were published by subscription as Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c. in 1825 [Hastings 1825]. Drawings connected with the project are in Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, which also formerly held an oil copy made by Hastings of Wilson's The Tiber: Rome in the Distance when owned by Lady Ford. Some of his surviving paintings, in particular Woodbury Tower, Devon (signed and dated 1813) and One of the Great Ponds between Hampstead and Highgate (signed and dated 1831), were influenced by Wilson.

    Yale Center for British Art owns an oil by Hastings - Landscape with Figures of c.1822 (B1981.25.323).

    For the latest research on Hastings including a checklist of his works, see Marianne A. Yule, 'Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854): His full Identity revealed', British Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn 2015, pp. 56-69 [Yule 2015].
    Significant institutions
    British Institution; Liverpool Academy; Royal Academy

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On Hounslow Heath, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Samuel Alken (1756-1815)after Wilson, The Gypsies, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Lake of Albano, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Near Rome, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On Hounslow Heath, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Villa Emelia, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (Lake and Castle), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Neath Castle, Glamorganshire, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On Hounslow Heath, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Lake of Albano, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Near Rome, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Villa Emelia, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Gypsies, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Lake of Nemi, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Villa of Maecenas near Tivoli, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Vale of Narni., The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, View in Italy (A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II)), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Neath Castle, Glamorganshire, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, View of Lareci near Rome , The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Bay of Baiae from Posilupo, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Sion Park and House on Thames from Richmond Gardens, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Temple of Venus with Part of the Bay of Baiae, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (Lake and Castle), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Villa Borghese, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Italian Scenery (River and Farmhouse - I), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (Grove and sunlit Landscape), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Italian. (River and Fishrmen), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On the River Tiber, near Rome., The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The White Monk, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On the Bay of Baiae - Italy, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled ('L'Anconetta near Venice'), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On the Arno, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Temple of Minerva Medica, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On the Tiber, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On the Thames., The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Murder, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Lake of Nemi [in] Italy, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Part of the Amphitheatre at Rome, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Ruin near Venice, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Part of Mecaenas' Villa at Tivoli, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, The Lake of Albano, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin), The British Museum

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tall Trees, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Lake Scene by Moonlight, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) View from the Back of St Peter's, Rome, Private Collection, England
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