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    Grove and sunlit Landscape

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    Grove and sunlit Landscape
    Grove and sunlit Landscape
    Grove and sunlit Landscape
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    Grove and sunlit Landscape
    Date
    c.1770
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 31 x 42 cm
    Imperial: 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    BB27
    Wilson Online Reference
    P169
    Description
    To the left, buildings are seen through trees, with more buildings on a hill in the distance. To the right a man is riding a horse through a dark avenue.
    Exhibited
    Grosvenor Gallery 1888 (338 - Sunlit Plain 13 x 16 in., lent Sir Clare F. Ford); Brighton 1920 (7 - Landscape); Exeter 1946 (70 Landscape)
    Provenance
    Benjamin Booth; Revd. R.S. Booth, thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned, no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] In centre of upper horizontal stretcher bar an indecipherable red wax seal
    [2] In centre of lower horizontal stretcher bar an indecipherable red wax sea.l
    Related Prints
    E72/19 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled (Grove and sunlit Landscape), The British Museum (1854,0708.76) and other impressions
    Critical commentary
    Despite the Booth provenance and the Hastings etching this seems a doubtful picture. The background and sky are more convincing as being by Wilson than the foreground, trees and avenue. There the facture seems untypically minute and clumsily managed. In the upper centre of the tree at the centre left are patches of undifferentiated green and there are more all down the right side of the right-hand tree. In contrast to these generalised trees the buildings in the distance are more differentiated.
    Bibliography
    Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (*11); Hastings 1825; WGC, pp. 94, 124, 200, pl. 80a; Walpole Society 1998-I p. 17, BB27
    Condition/Conservation
    Relined

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled (Grove and sunlit Landscape), The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713-1782) Grove in Italy, Private Collection, Somerset, UK

    Exhibitions

    • Brighton, Fine Art Galleries, 28 February - 2 May 1920
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946

    Biographies

    • Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Thomas Hastings, Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c.
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
    • Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners
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