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    Tercentenary 2014
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    Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
    6 March - 29 October 2014
    Curators
    Martin Postle, Robin Simon, and Scott Wilcox
    Related Publication
    Exhibition catalogue: Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting, xi + 358 pp. (Wilson and Europe 2014)
    More Information
    This major exhibition celebrating the tercentenary of Wilson's birth was at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (6 March - 1 June 2014) then Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff (5 July - 29 October 2014). In total it comprised 161 paintings and works on paper, the majority by or after Wilson.

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) River and Farmhouse -I (Italian River Scene with Figures), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Distant View of Maecenas' Villa, Tivoli, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Dover Castle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Solitude - I, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Baths of Ischia, near Naples, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Llyn Cau, Cader Idris, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) On Hounslow Heath, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Meleager and Atalanta, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Palladian Bridge, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Rome from the Villa Madama, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) An Italian Landscape, Morning (River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin) (The Temple of Venus at Baiae), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Portrait of Francesco Zuccarelli, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Rome: St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Ruined Arch in Kew Gardens, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tivoli, the Cascatelle Grandi and the Villa of Maecenas (View of Tivoli with Rome in the Distance), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Head of a Capuchin Monk, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicestershire, UK
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae (The Lake of Nemi with Diana and Callisto), The Trustees of Jane, Lucy and Charles Hoare, Stourhead, Wiltshire, National Trust
    • Studio of Wilson, The White Monk - IV, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A Summer Evening River View ('On the Arno'- IV) , Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Pembroke Town and Castle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ceyx and Alcyone, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with Banditti round a Tent, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) View in Windsor Great Park (Richmond Park: Penn Ponds), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Portrait of Boulter Tomlinson, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tabley House, Cheshire, Tabley House Collection Trust, Cheshire
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Vale of Narni, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Holt Bridge on the River Dee, The National Gallery, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)and Studio, The White Monk - I, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The White Monk - I, Toledo Museum of Art
    • Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Richard Wilson, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Private Collection at Ashridge, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Portrait of John Jones of Pentre Mawr, Abergele, Private Collection, Wales

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi (Study of an Ancient Tree), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Via Nomentana, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Sculpted Plinth in the Villa Medici (Ancient Altar in the Villa Medici), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Holt Bridge on the River Dee, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Fontana dello Scoglio (A Rocaille Fountain), Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A View of Hounslow Heath, London, Private Collection, UK, c/o Lowell Libson Ltd
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Torre delle Grotte, near Naples, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Circus of Caracalla, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Castle of St Angelo, Rome, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ponte Nomentano, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ariccia, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, The British Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Coastal Scene, The British Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Santo Stefano Rotondo and the Claudian Aqueduct, The British Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (Part of the Ruins of Hadrian's Villa), Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Baths of Caracalla at Albano (The House of Pompey at Albano), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Portrait of Thomas Jenkins, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Two Lions' Heads, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with the Crater of Vesuvius, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with Vesuvius, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 17(v) and 18(r), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Villa Madama, Rome, with a Man seated in the Foreground, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) View of St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum , Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with Banditti: The Murder (A Rocky Landscape), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A Roman Relief showing a Poultry Shop, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ionic Capitals, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tall Trees, Private Collection, England
    • Ascribed to John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779)after Wilson, Meleager and Atalanta, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
    • Ascribed to Wilson, A Roman Table Support, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Aviaries of the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine, Rome, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 35: Niobe, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    Prints

    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801)after Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • William Woollett (1735-1785)after Wilson, Ceyx and Alcyone, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • William Sharp (1749-1824) and Samuel Smith (1745-1810)after Wilson, Niobe, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810)after Wilson, Solitude, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled], Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Giuseppe Vasiafter Wilson, Veduta del Tempio, e Fiume del Clitunno nello Stato presente, The British Museum
    • William Hodgesafter Wilson, Torre delle Grotte near Naples, The British Museum
    • John Plimmer (c.1725-61)after Wilson (?), Landscape with Apollo and the Seasons, The British Museum
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801)after Wilson, In the Villa Adriana, The British Museum
    • Edward Rooker (c.1712-1774)after Wilson, Circus of Caracalla (from Twelve Original Views in Italy), Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Joseph Woodafter Wilson, The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801)after Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • William Woollett (1735-1785)after Wilson, Niobe, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801)after Wilson, Temple of Peace (from Twelve Original Views in Italy), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Joseph Farington (1747-1821)after Wilson, Bridge of Augustus at Rimini (from Twelve Original Views in Italy), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801)after Wilson, Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli (from Twelve Original Views in Italy), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Earlom (1743-1822)after Wilson, Meleager and Atalanta, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • William Woollett (1735-1785)after Wilson, Niobe, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • William Woollett (1735-1785)after Wilson, Phaeton, The British Museum
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