Landscape View under a Stone Pine

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Landscape View under a Stone Pine
Landscape View under a Stone Pine
Landscape View under a Stone Pine
Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K. / The Bridgeman Art Library
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Landscape View under a Stone Pine
Date
c.1752-56 (undated)
Medium
Chalk with white heightening on paper
Dimensions
Metric: 81 x 110 mm
Imperial: 3 3/16 x 4 5/16 in.
Accession Number
13.256/53
Wilson Online Reference
D185
Description
Towards the left, two figures stand conversing under a large stone pine with a vista of hills and buildings beyond a lake or river in the centre and a more distant group of trees on the right
Provenance
Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784); [...] Lupton Bequest 1952
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Collectors' marks
[1] Recto, lower right corner: Nathaniel Hone (Lugt 2793)
More Information
Descendants of a distinguished Leeds family, Agnes and Norman Darnton Lupton, brother and sister, left a substantial bequest of British drawings and watercolours to the Leeds Art Gallery in 1952. Norman had attended both Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was a mechanical engineer and a successful artist.The siblings' donation to the gallery included works by Wilson, John Sell Cotman, Thomas Girtin, and J. M. W. Turner.