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    River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln)

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    River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln)
    River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln)
    River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln)
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln)
    Date
    After 1757 (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 43.8 x 55.3 cm
    Imperial: 17 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.
    Collection
    The Bowes Museum. To license image, click here.
    Wilson Online Reference
    P35A
    Description
    Two trees stand in the left foreground with two figures under them. In the centre on the far bank is a low building with a chimney; there are two boats in the water to the right. High ground is in the left distance but to the right is flat country with distant hills.
    Provenance
    Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1885-1937), Newnham Paddox, Rugby; sold Christie's 1 July 1938 (139 - River Scene; A peasant seated under a tall tree with a shepherdess standing by his side; a river flowing across the centre with hills beyond), bt Gooden & Fox (£336); Ernest Cook, 1, Sion Hill Place, Bath; bequeathed to the National Art Collections Fund (NACF)1955 and presented to the Bowes Museum by the NACF
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Prints
    E72/18 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Italian Scenery, The British Museum (1854,0708.75) and other impressions
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Critical commentary
    This and two other versions cited by W.G. Constable differ from P35 in details and in the figures, such as the boy leaning against the tree, the woman wearing a shawl and hood and a dog which is substituted for the third figure. Their clothing and attitudes are thus far removed from those of Zuccarelli and have assumed a more northern character, making it probable that this and the other versions were painted later, perhaps in England.
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 216 under pl. 103a (other version 3)
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/118

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Italian Scenery, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) River and Farmhouse -I (Italian River Scene with Figures), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) River and Farmhouse - I (River with Lime Kiln), Petworth House, National Trust

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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