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A Backwater of the Severn (Landscape with Figures resting by a Lake)…
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
A Backwater of the Severn (Landscape with Figures resting by a Lake) (River: Boys fishing)
Date
c.1768 (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 35.6 x 45 cm
Imperial: 14 x 17 3/4 in.
Wilson Online Reference
P188A
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
Probably Paul Guillaume Gallery, London, October 1929; Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, Annual Exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 3-15 October 1938
Provenance
Harald Bendixson; Anon sale, Christie's 21 December 1928 (135 - A River Scene, bt Spink (£273 [260 gns]); with Spink & Son, Ltd, 5-7, King Street, London S.W.1; sold to Knoedler & Co., 15 Old Bond Street London W.1, 12 February 1930 (#1073); with Agnews; bought by Newport Corporation Art Gallery, 1939
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
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Critical commentary
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
Art News, vol. 27, March 1929; WGC, p. 183, pl. 49a
Link to WG Constable Archive Record