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    Copenhagen House Tavern - Islington Fields

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    Copenhagen House Tavern - Islington Fields
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    Copenhagen House Tavern - Islington Fields
    Date
    c.1749-50 (undated)
    Medium
    Watercolour on paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 155 x 258 mm
    Imperial: 6 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.
    Collection
    National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    D 4662
    Wilson Online Reference
    D7
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (103); Manchester 1925 (44); Ipswich 1927 (106)
    Provenance
    Sir Edward Marsh; presented through the National Art-Collections Fund 1953
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Labels
    An eighteenth-century label in the dossier originally adhered to the reverse is inscribed:
    [1] Copenhagen House | Islington Fields. | Taken about the year 1780 by Richard Wilson. | Presented by him to his pupil [ ... ] Brooks
    [2] In a different hand: 18364?
    Critical commentary
    Wilson painted sites near London, e.g. P131 On Hounslow Heath. He also drew them, e.g. D360 A View of Hounslow Heath, London, but never used watercolour, which he disliked as a medium. As Baker has remarked, the style of D7 thus seems incompatible with what is known of his draughtsmanship. In 1780 he was about to retreat from London to Wales on account of ill health, which throws the accuracy of the label verso into doubt. However, it is possible that before leaving he might have presented drawings to a former pupil, such as the shadowy William Brooks, who is known to have exhibited 15 landscapes (and two subjects from Thomson's Seasons) at the Royal Academy, beginning in 1780. It has also been suggested that D7 might be very loosely connected with the British landscapes of Thomas Jones. But its poor condition hinders any positive assessment of its authorship.
    Bibliography
    Baker 2011, p. 415
    Condition/Conservation
    Inlaid
    Updated by Compiler
    2019-11-12 00:00:00

    Exhibitions

    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925
    • Ipswich Museum, 7 October - 5 November 1927

    Biographies

    • Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)
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