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    Cicero conversing with a female Figure in a wooded Lake Landscape

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    Cicero conversing with a female Figure in a wooded Lake Landscape
    Cicero conversing with a female Figure in a wooded Lake Landscape
    Cicero conversing with a female Figure in a wooded Lake Landscape
    Private Collection / Image courtesy of Richard Feigen
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Cicero conversing with a female Figure in a wooded Lake Landscape
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 30 x 47.7 cm
    Imperial: 11 3/4 x 18 3/4in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, New York
    Wilson Online Reference
    P162D
    Exhibited
    BI 1814 (130/133 - Cicero at his Villa); BI 1824 (170); Leeds 1868 (1159); Guildhall, London, A Selection of Works by French and English Painters of the eighteenth Century, 1902 (60 - Cicero's Villa, lent by Charles Butler); New York 2010 (13)
    Provenance
    John Hawkins, Bignor Park, Sussex; his son, C.H.T. Hawkins, London; Christie's 11 May 1896 (29), bt C. Butler (38 gns); Charles Butler; Christie's 26 May 1911 (157), bt Sabin (52 gns); V. Wethered; Miss A. Wethered, London; Christie's 4 December 1953 (107), bt Drake; M.T. Nicolle; Christie's 21 November 1980 (59) bt in; Christie's 26 June 1981 (70); private collection, New York
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Prints
    E45 William Woollett, Cicero at his Villa, The British Museum and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P156 Near Rome, Private Collection, England
    P162 Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and other versions
    Critical commentary
    David Solkin has remarked that the composition is closely related to P156 Near Rome, Private Collection, England. In composition and theme, however, it appears to be a later variant of P162 Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and other versions. A version was exhibited at the R.A. in 1770 and an engraving after it by William Woollett was published in 1778 (E45). The present painting, with its broad, summary brushwork, typical of Wilson's style in the 1770s, may have been executed about the same time and as an indirect result of its popularity. Cicero's companions in the earlier work, Atticus and Quintus, have here been replaced by an apparently female figure, perhaps intended as his wife, Terentia, or his beloved daughter, Tullia, who died in childbirth.
    Bibliography
    WGC p. 169, pls 27a & 27b (versions 2 & 5); Feigen 2010, unpaginated

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • William Woollett, Cicero at his Villa, The British Museum and other impressions

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Cicero, Atticus and Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Private Collection, London

    Paintings

    • Near Rome, Private Collection, England
    • Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and other versions

    Exhibitions

    • New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., 29 April - 25 June 2010
    • Leeds, UK, 1868

    Documents

    • Richard Feigen and Ann Guité, Richard Wilson and the British Arcadia
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