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    Villa Negroni
    Villa Negroni
    Villa Negroni
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Villa Negroni
    Date
    c.1753-54 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white
    Dimensions
    Metric: 191 x 184 mm
    Imperial: 7 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF76
    Wilson Online Reference
    D230
    Description
    In the right foreground a group of figures is gathered beside a rustic hut. A path leads past them towards a clearing and a distant villa.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (14)
    Provenance
    William Lock 'of Norbury'; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 3-8 May 1821 (part of 377); Marianne Ford ; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Inscribed in ink in an old hand (not Wilson's): Villa Negroni
    Subject
    In the late 16th century Pope Sixtus V (1521-1590), while still a cardinal, bought a large estate and villa in the northern part of Rome. In 1696 it was sold to Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Negroni and became known as Villa Negroni. It was demolished in the 19th century.
    Related Drawings
    D149 A Wayside Hut,The British Museum
    D404 Villa Negroni, Rome, Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, London
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Richard Cooper Junior (1740-1822): Garden of the Villa Negroni at Rome, brown ink, wash and white chalk on paper, National Galleries of Scotland
    [2] Thomas Jones: An Excavation of an Antique Building in a Cava in the Villa Negroni, Rome, oil and chalk on paper, ?1777, later dated 1779, Tate, London (T03544)
    [3] John Robert Cozens: In the Gardens of the Villa Negroni at Rome, watercolour, 1783, Private Collection
    [4] Joseph Mallord William Turner: Villa Negroni, graphite and wash on paper, c.1794-97,
    Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester (D1963.2)
    Critical commentary
    A version is in the British Museum (D149) and a drawing from a different viewpoint has recently emerged (D404). A drawing of the villa was sold at the Esdaile sale, Christie's 20 March 1838 (636).
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, pp. 26, 43, 55, pl. 27; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 71, RF 76
    More Information
    The villa's famous gardens originally contained Bernini's great marble sculpture Neptune and Triton, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • A Wayside Hut,The British Museum (1881,0212.51)
    • Villa Negroni, Rome, Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, London

    Exhibitions

    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • John G. Ford (-1917)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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