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'L'Anconetta near Venice, a Sketch
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'L'Anconetta near Venice, a Sketch
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Ascribed to Wilson
Title
'L'Anconetta near Venice, a Sketch
Date
c.1765-70
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 27.6 x 41.5 cm
Imperial: 10 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.
Details
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
BB22
Wilson Online Reference
NWP113D
Description
A view from the mainland across the Venetian lagoon towards the Tower of Malghera and the city of Venice in the distance. On an island just offshore stands a small church among poplars and stone pines, into which a religious procession is passing. In the foreground are a prominent boat containing three figures, one holding a parasol, and further back a ferry bearing three people, cattle and a dog.
Exhibited
Brighton 1920 (37); Bangor 1925 (20); Exeter 1946 (67); Birmingham 1948-49 (22) London 1949 (21)
Provenance
P. Sandby; Benjamin Booth; thence by descent
Techniques and materials
The colour range and technique are totally at variance with those of Wilson
Collectors' marks
[1] Centre of upper horizontal stretcher bar, indecipherable red seal
Labels
[1] Upper centre right of frame printed and written in Kenneth Garlick's handwriting: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery | R. Wilson | 22 [pencil encircled] | L'Anconetta
Subject
L'Anconetta is a small island near Marghera, in the vicinity of Mestre on the Venetian Lagoon, on which stood the convent church of Santa Maria dell'Anconetta - a dependency of the Patriarch of Venice.
Related Drawings
D19
A Sandalo
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
D193 Studio of Wilson,
The Island of Anconetta, Venice
, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Related Prints
E19 John Roberts after Wilson,
L'Anconetta, an Island near Venice
, 1767, The British Museum
Versions
See 'Links' tab
Related Paintings
P149
L'Anconetta near Venice
, Private Collection, England
Related Works by Other Artists
Francesco Guardi (1712-1793),
The Island of Anconetta, Venice
, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv. no. 184)
Critical commentary
To outward appearances this seems to be a pastiche. However, in view of the Booth provenance it may have been repainted at an early date, as W.G. Constable believed - perhaps even by Paul Sandby, its first owner. Numerous versions and variations of the composition indicate its popularity in Wilson's lifetime and later.
Bibliography
Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (9 - L'Anconetta near Venice (a sketch)); WGC, pp. 192-93, pl. 66a, unnumbered variant; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 16, BB22
Condition/Conservation
Relined
Updated by Compiler
2021-09-24 00:00:00
Work of Art
Drawings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
A Sandolo
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Studio of Wilson,
The Island of Anconetta, Venice
, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Prints
John Roberts after Wilson,
L'Anconetta, an Island near Venice
, The British Museum
Versions
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
L'Anconetta, near Venice
, Vancouver Art Gallery
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
L'Anconetta with Venice beyond
, Private Collection, England
Studio of Wilson,
View of L'Anconetta, near Venice
, Private Collection
Paintings
L'Anconetta near Venice
, Private Collection, England
Exhibitions
Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
London, Tate Gallery, 22 January - 14 March 1949
Bangor, University College of North Wales, 4 April - 23 May 1925
Brighton, Fine Art Galleries, 28 February - 2 May 1920
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Biographies
Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford and other authors,
The Ford Collection
Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners