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    A River at Sunset

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    A River at Sunset
    A River at Sunset
    A River at Sunset
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    A River at Sunset
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 72 x 93.5 cm
    Imperial: 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 5199
    Wilson Online Reference
    NWP161A
    Description
    A river winds through the centre of the composition with trees and bushes on the right and flat open country beyond. There is a group of figures is in the foreground, including a mother and baby, a seated child and a fisherman. More figures are visible in the boats in the centre distance on the promontory to the left and the path further left.
    Provenance
    With Spink; Frederick John Nettlefold, 1946, by whom given, 1946
    Bibliography
    Grundy & Roe 1938, vol. 4, pp. 162-63 - View of an English River at Sunset; In the Distance the Welsh Hills, repr.col.; WGC, p. 183, pl. 50a version 2
    Condition/Conservation
    Kate Lowry has noted: Glue relined. Original turnovers removed at time of lining. Pine stretcher dates from lining. Double layered white ground, commercially prepared. X-ray shows a typical reserve left for the landscape against the sky. However the sky has an unusually elaborate texture for Wilson. The willow tree and the tree at the right are painted over the sky.

    Work of Art

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)and later intervention, River View ('On the Severn'), Private Collection

    Biographies

    • Frederick John Nettlefold (1867-1949)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • C. Reginald Grundy & F. Gordon Roe, A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of Frederick John Nettlefold
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