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    Nielsen 1979
    Author
    Inger Hjorth Nielsen
    Title/Description
    'Richard Wilson and Danish Artists in Rome in the 1750s'
    Publisher
    The Burlington Magazine
    Country
    London, UK
    Date of Publication
    July 1979
    Printed/Manuscript
    Secondary published
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    Vol. 121, no. 916, pp. 439-440, 442-443, 449. On the evidence of their Italian drawings the article proposes the Swedish/Danish painter Johan Mandelberg (1730-1786) and the Danish artist and sculptor Johannes Wiedewelt (1731-1802) as 'copyists, imitators, followers, or - though least likely - pupils' of Wilson in Rome. The author suggests that the two younger artists could have met Wilson in Rome through Anton Raphael 'Mengs's hospitable home in the Via Sistina' or in the circle of J.J. Winckelmann or through Wilson's German pupil, Adolf Friedrich Harper (1725-1806) or in the course of the social life at the Café Inglese and Café Greco.

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    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ionic Capitals, Private Collection, England
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