Grove and sunlit Landscape

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Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond

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Artist

Ascribed to Wilson

Title

Grove and sunlit Landscape

Date

c.1770

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Metric: 31 x 42 cm
Imperial: 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.

Collection

Private Collection, England

Accession Number

BB27

Wilson Online Reference

P169

Description

To the left, buildings are seen through trees, with more buildings on a hill in the distance. To the right a man is riding a horse through a dark avenue.

Exhibited

Grosvenor Gallery 1888 (338 - Sunlit Plain 13 x 16 in., lent Sir Clare F. Ford); Brighton 1920 (7 - Landscape); Exeter 1946 (70 Landscape)

Provenance

Benjamin Booth; Revd. R.S. Booth, thence by descent

Signature/inscription

Unsigned, no inscription

Verso inscriptions

[1] In centre of upper horizontal stretcher bar an indecipherable red wax seal
[2] In centre of lower horizontal stretcher bar an indecipherable red wax sea.l

Related Prints

E72/19 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled (Grove and sunlit Landscape), The British Museum (1854,0708.76) and other impressions

Critical commentary

Despite the Booth provenance and the Hastings etching this seems a doubtful picture. The background and sky are more convincing as being by Wilson than the foreground, trees and avenue. There the facture seems untypically minute and clumsily managed. In the upper centre of the tree at the centre left are patches of undifferentiated green and there are more all down the right side of the right-hand tree. In contrast to these generalised trees the buildings in the distance are more differentiated.

Bibliography

Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (*11); Hastings 1825; WGC, pp. 94, 124, 200, pl. 80a; Walpole Society 1998-I p. 17, BB27

Condition/Conservation

Relined

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