Welsh Landscape with a ruined Castle by a Lake

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Welsh Landscape with a ruined Castle by a Lake
Welsh Landscape with a ruined Castle by a Lake
Welsh Landscape with a ruined Castle by a Lake
The Thaw Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum/Art Resource/Scala, Florence 2014
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Welsh Landscape with a ruined Castle by a Lake
Date
c. 1780 (undated)
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
Metric: 19.1 x 21.9 cm
Imperial: 7 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.
Accession Number
2009.400.122
Wilson Online Reference
P193
Exhibited
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches: Acquisitions since 1994, 27 September 2002 – 19 January 2003 (63)
Provenance
Possibly Samuel J. Day (1757-1806), Hinton Charterhouse, Bath; possibly by bequest to the Robertson-Glasgow family, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, from 1846; by descent to Robin F. Robertson-Glasgow (1935-2007), Hinton Charterhouse, Bath; his sale, London, Christie’s South Kensington, 23 November 1995, lot 23, as circle of Richard Wilson (bought in); private collection (according to Robin F. Robertson-Glasgow); sale, London, Sotheby’s, 3 April 1996, lot 95 (as Richard Wilson), repr.; Agnew’s, London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York. Thaw Collection, jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
Verso inscriptions
Inscribed on verso in pen and blue ink on label: B 724; in pen and black ink on a label in an eighteenth-century hand (?): [illegible] Landscape. Wilson
Critical commentary
In the 1760s Wilson began to incorporate into British views the idealising tendencies of the Grand Manner long associated with Italianate landscapes. This informal little painting does not depict an actual site, but it bears affinities with Welsh subjects such as Dolbadarn Castle and Okehampton Castle that the artist painted in the 1760s and 70s.
Bibliography
K. Stuart, The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions since 1994, exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 2002, pp. 142–43, no. 63, ill., repr. colour; E. Bell, Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection. Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, New York 2011, p. 149, no. 142, repr. colour
Link to WG Constable Archive Record