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    Tall Trees

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    Tall Trees
    Tall Trees
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Tall Trees
    Date
    c.1752-53 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump with white highlights on beige paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 401 x 267 mm
    Imperial: 15 3/4 x 10 1/2in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    BB48
    Wilson Online Reference
    D202
    Exhibited
    Brighton 1920; London 1934 (1138); Exeter 1946 (7 - Tall Trees, Vale of Baiae); Birmingham 1948-49 (103); London 1949 (102); Arts Council 1951 (214); Paris 1953 (89); London 1968 (660); Kenwood 1974 (149); Conwy 2009 (9); Tercentenary 2014 (29)
    Provenance
    Mercati, Marylebone; bt Benjamin Booth October 1788; his son, the Revd S. Booth; his sisters, Elizabeth Booth and Marianne Booth, later Lady Ford; thence by descent
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] MS inscription by Benjamin Booth: I purchased this drawing of Mercati in Marylebone High St, Oct. 1788. B.B.
    [2] MS inscription: Marianne
    Related Drawings
    D285 River Scene by Moonlight (Lake Scene), Private Collection, England
    Critical commentary
    Drawn in Italy at a time when Wilson was collecting a stock of motifs for future inclusion in his landscape paintings and under the influence of contemporary French artists working in Rome, a period during which he evolved a confident and elegant style. This is emphasised by the generous dimensions of the sheet which imply that the artist considered such studies important.
    Bibliography
    Booth MS; Cook & Wedderburn, Vol. 16, The Two Paths, 1859, pp. 414-15; Commemorative Catalogue 1934 (583, pl. CXLV); Ford 1951, frontispiece and pp. 27, 51; Festival 1951, p. 68; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 20, BB48; Lord 2009, p. 50, no. 9, repr. p. 36; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 225
    More Information
    John Ruskin was later to express a low opinion of Wilson's tree technique, which he described as 'two pronged barbarousness', adding that he would be found 'continually laughing at Wilson's tree painting; not because Wilson could not paint but because he had never looked at a tree.' (The Two Paths, 1859)
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    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • River Scene by Moonlight (Lake Scene), Private Collection, England

    Exhibitions

    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
    • London, Tate Gallery, 22 January - 14 March 1949
    • Brighton, Fine Art Galleries, 28 February - 2 May 1920
    • Conwy, Royal Cambrian Academy, 24 October - 23 December 2009
    • London, Kenwood House, Iveagh Bequest, 8 June - 27 August 1974
    • Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, February - April 1953
    • London, Royal Academy, 6 January - 17 March 1934
    • London, Royal Academy, 14 December 1968 - 2 March 1969
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • London, Festival of Britain, 1951
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Biographies

    • Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
    • Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
    • Elizabeth Booth (1763-1819)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Richard Ford (1758-1806)
    • John Ruskin (1819-1900)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • Captain Richard Ford (1860-1940)

    Documents

    • Peter Lord, Richard Wilson. Life & Legacy
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
    • Brinsley Ford, Three Centuries of British Water-Colours and Drawings
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