A View on the Thames

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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.

Collection

Tate, London. To license image, click here.

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.

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