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    Lake Scene by Moonlight

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    Lake Scene by Moonlight
    Lake Scene by Moonlight
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Lake Scene by Moonlight
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk, heightened with white on greenish-grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 370 x 267 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    BB47
    Wilson Online Reference
    D208
    Description
    By the light of the full moon, two boatmen stand beside a rocky arch and outcrop. On the distant shore beyond a river or lake are seen a windmill, a house and some trees and bushes. In the centre of the composition four birds fly upwards and towards the right, silhouetted against the glistening sky.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (13 - River Scene by Moonlight); Paris 1953 (90); Gainsborough's House 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    Benjamin Booth; the Revd R.S.Booth; Elizabeth Booth and Marianne Booth (later Lady Ford); thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Inscribed: Marianne Ford
    [3] Inscribed in Marianne Ford's hand: Wilson
    Critical commentary
    The composition recalls seventeenth-century Dutch moonlight scenes by Aert van der Neer (?1603/4-1677) and others, probably known to Wilson from his apprentice years in London. Such nocturnes were later to become the stock-in-trade of British Romantic artists including Turner and Joseph Wright of Derby, who was also much influenced by Wilson's Italian landscapes.
    Bibliography
    Walpole Society 1998-I, p.20, BB47
    Updated by Compiler
    2018-11-21 00:00:00

    Exhibitions

    • Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, February - April 1953
    • London, Royal Academy, 6 January - 17 March 1934
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 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 Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • Captain Richard Ford (1860-1940)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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