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    Wilton House from the South East

    Wilton House from the South East
    Wilton House from the South East
    Wilton House from the South East
    Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K. / The Bridgeman Art Library
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Wilton House from the South East
    Date
    c. 1760 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 255 x 426 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/16 x 16 3/4 in.
    Collection
    Leeds Museums and Galleries. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    13.262/53
    Wilson Online Reference
    D352
    Exhibited
    Ipswich 1927 (105 - River Scene with Figures); Oxford Arts Club 1937 (33); Wakefield City Art Gallery, English Watercolours and Drawings 1740-1840, 1956 (85); Leeds City Art Gallery, The Agnes and Norman Lupton Collection of Watercolours and Drawings, 17 May - 25 June 1972 (85)
    Provenance
    Percy Moore Turner; with P.& D. Colnaghi, London, 1951; Lupton Bequest 1952
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Paintings
    P76 Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder) Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
    P76A Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    P76B Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
    P76C Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), Private Collection, Wales
    P76D School of Wilson, Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, on loan from the Mrs M Sharpe Erskine Trust
    Critical commentary
    Ford suggested that from this drawing, probably made on the spot, Wilson produced the small oil sketch (P76B) from which he painted the large canvas of Wilton from the Southeast (P76). If correct this would provide one of the few instances in which the evolution of a composition can be traced in all its stages.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    407
    Bibliography
    Ipswich 1927, p. 67; Ford 1951, pp. 36, 62, no. 73; WGC, pp. 88, 111, 188-89, pl. 58a; Leeds Art Calendar, no. 35, 1956, pp. 7, 12 repr., 22; Solkin 1978, p. 407, pl. 24a
    More Information
    Descendants of a distinguished Leeds family, Agnes and Norman Darnton Lupton, brother and sister, left a substantial bequest of British drawings and watercolours to the Leeds Art Gallery in 1952. Norman had attended both Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was a mechanical engineer and a successful artist.The siblings' donation to the gallery included works by Wilson, John Sell Cotman, Thomas Girtin, and J. M. W. Turner.

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder) Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), Private Collection, Wales
    • School of Wilson, Wilton House from the Southeast (Wilton House, South East View across the River Nadder), National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, on loan from the Mrs M Sharpe Erskine Trust

    Exhibitions

    • Ipswich Museum, 7 October - 5 November 1927

    Biographies

    • Percy Moore Turner (1905-1952)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, 'Some New Light on the Drawings of Richard Wilson'
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
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