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River: Boys fishing (A Backwater of the Severn) (Landscape with…
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
River: Boys fishing (A Backwater of the Severn) (Landscape with Figures resting by a Lake)
Date
Later 1760s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 36.2 x 44 cm
Imperial: 14 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.
Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
BB36
Wilson Online Reference
P188
Description
Three figures are seen on a river-bank, one boy fishing, one lying down and a girl standing, with trees and a wooden fence opposite on the right and landscape in the background
Exhibited
Weston 2011 (32); Gainsborough House 2014 (unnumbered)
Provenance
Robert Ford; his daughter, Mrs Rogers; Lionel Edwards of Penrose; bequeathed to Joanna Lady Ford, the niece of his wife, 1961
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Related Prints
E62 William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson, Landscape with three Figures on a River-bank, one fishing, The British Museum [in reverse]
Versions
See 'Links' tab
Critical commentary
Stylistically one of Wilson's later works. Although the traditional title for this composition and other versions has often identified the setting as the River Severn no documentary evidence for such a location has so far come to light.
Bibliography
[Not listed in WGC]; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 19, BB36; Williams 2011, p. 43