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    The White Monk - IV (Italian Landscape, with white Monk)

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    The White Monk - IV (Italian Landscape, with white Monk)
    The White Monk - IV (Italian Landscape, with white Monk)
    Museums Sheffield
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    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    The White Monk - IV (Italian Landscape, with white Monk)
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 66.8 x 82.3 cm
    Imperial: 26 1/4 x 32 3/8 in.
    Collection
    Museums Sheffield. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    VIS.358
    Wilson Online Reference
    P147A
    Description
    A sunlit river landscape is seen against voluminous clouds. On the left is a prominent boulder, against which rests a stick, with others on the ground nearby. There are two large trees and a feathery sapling with a single bird on the right, and in the left middle distance, a wooded cliff and promontory, on the edge of which is silhouetted a gabled chapel with religious figures in obeisance before it. A hilltop town and mountains are in the background and other buildings on the plain below.
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (27 - Italian Landscape: The White Monk); Manchester 1925 (65 - Italian Landscape - The White Monk); Brussels 1929 (198)
    Provenance
    Miss Bradley, Eastbourne; Frederick Anthony White, 170 Queen's Gate, Kensington; Christie's 28 April 1934 (155); bt J.G. Graves; given to Sheffield Museums, 1942
    Signature/inscription
    Signed on the rock left foreground: RW [monogram, the R reversed]
    Related Drawings
    D344 Banks of the Tiber 1757, Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence
    Related Prints
    E17 James Roberts after Wilson, The White Monk (Untitled), The British Museum and other impressions
    E72/22 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, The White Monk, 1822, The British Museum (1854,0708.79) and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P144 Richard Wilson, The White Monk - I, Toledo Museum of Art
    P144A Wilson and Studio, The White Monk - I, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    NWP144E Ascribed to Wilson, The White Monk - I, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    P144F Richard Wilson, The White Monk - I, Private Collection
    P145 Richard Wilson, The White Monk - II, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
    P145A Richard Wilson, The White Monk - II, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    P145B Richard Wilson, The White Monk - II, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
    P146 Richard Wilson, The White Monk - III, Private Collection
    P146A Richard Wilson, The White Monk - III, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    P146B Richard Wilson, The White Monk - III, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
    Critical commentary
    P147 and P147A differ from other versions of The White Monk in having no seated figures or parasol in the right foreground. Of the three main variants of the subject, the present work is closest in composition to P144 The White Monk - I (Toledo Museum of Art), having a wayside shrine rather than a cross on the promontory and no buildings at the upper left. Martin Postle has recently suggested a more exact setting than previously acknowledged, e.g. by W.G. Constable, who recorded that it had sometimes been identified as Tivoli or a lower part of the Aniene gorge. Postle proposed the upper Aniene valley, looking east towards the Prenestini mountains and the rocky outcrops of Mentorella and Guadagnolo. This is an area associated historically with a chain of Benedictine monasteries, thus providing context for the presence of monks on the promontory.
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 228; The Studio, January 1952
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/138
    More Information
    Frederick Anthony White was a wealthy industrialist and collector, for whom Norman Shaw designed 170, Queen's Gate, completed in 1889.
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    2021-01-13 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Banks of the Tiber 1757 Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence

    Prints

    • James Roberts after Wilson, The White Monk (Untitled), The British Museum
    • James Roberts after Wilson, The White Monk (Untitled), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, The White Monk, 1822, The British Museum (1854,0708.79)

    Versions

    • Studio of Wilson, The White Monk - IV, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The White Monk - IV, Private Collection, London

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - I, Toledo Museum of Art
    • Richard Wilson and Studio, The White Monk - I, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Ascribed to Wilson, The White Monk - I, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - I, Private Collection
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - II, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - II, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - II, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - III, Private Collection
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - III, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    • Richard Wilson, The White Monk - III, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

    Exhibitions

    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925
    • Brussels, Musée Moderne, 12 October - 1 December 1929

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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