A View on the Thames

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A View on the Thames
A View on the Thames
A View on the Thames
Tate, London 2014
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
A View on the Thames
Date
Before 1750 (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 61 x 76.2 cm
Imperial: 24 x 30 in.
Accession Number
N01889
Wilson Online Reference
P28
Provenance
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
Critical commentary
The title is speculative and the composition is atypical, suggesting, amongst other things, an early date
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
1889
Bibliography
Tate Gallery Catalogue 1929 (as School); Davies 1946, pp. 177-78, cat. 1889; WGC, pp. 130, 188, pl. 57b
More Information
Richard and Catherine Garnons were children of Richard Garnons, brother of Catherine Jones of Colomendy Hall, a cousin of Wilson.
Condition/Conservation
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.