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A View on the Thames
A View on the Thames
Tate, London 2014
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
A View on the Thames
Date
Before 1750 (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 61 x 76.2 cm
Imperial: 24 x 30 in.
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Collection
Tate, London. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
N01889
Wilson Online Reference
P28
Provenance
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons to the National Gallery with a life interest of Mrs Richard Garnons Jr, 1854; transferred from the National Gallery to the Tate 1955
Critical commentary
The title is speculative and the composition is atypical, suggesting, amongst other things, an early date
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
1889
Bibliography
Tate Gallery Catalogue 1929 (as School); Davies 1946, pp. 177-78, cat. 1889; WGC, pp. 130, 188, pl. 57b
More Information
Richard and Catherine Garnons were children of Richard Garnons, brother of Catherine Jones of Colomendy Hall, a cousin of Wilson.
Condition/Conservation
Dimensions with frame: 80 x 90 cm. Cleaned 1934 (National Gallery Report 1935). Not relined (1956). Cleaned, retouched, revarnished and marouflaged onto synthetic panel, December 1957 by B. Heineberg.
Biographies
Richard and Catherine Garnons
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
Martin Davies,
National Gallery Catalogues: The British School