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Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape…
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape with Cottages near a Lake)
Date
c.1744-45 (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 81.3 x 124.8 cm
Imperial: 32 x 49 1/8 in.
Accession Number
99.4
Wilson Online Reference
P11
Exhibited
London, Arts Council, 1952-53, Early English Landscapes from Colonel Grant's Collection (16); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (6); on loan to National Museum Wales 1992-96; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004, July 2004-February 2005; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection, August 2016–June 2017.
Provenance
Col. M.H. Grant; Sotheby's 14 June 1961 (89); Private Collection, UK; Executors of Captain R.S. de Q. Quincey; purchased through Agnews London 1999 with funds from the State of North Carolina, by exchange and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), in memory of Richard S. Schneiderman, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (1986-1993).
Critical commentary
First published by David Solkin in 1982, this unidentified view of a pastoral paradise shows, as Solkin noted, the artist at his most rococo and in the formative stages of his career as a landscapist. The pale pastel tints and rich variations in surface textures are directly comparable with his early essays in landscape, P10 Westminster Bridge under Construction , Tate, London and P12 Caernarvon Castle, Detroit Institute of Arts. Very freshly painted with a glorious luminosity P11 is surely one of the most beautiful of all Wilson landscapes.
Bibliography
Solkin 1982, pp. 26-27, 148
Condition/Conservation
Dimensions framed: 101.9 x 147 cm (40 1/8 x 57 7/8 in.)
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2025-07-17 00:00:00