Lot 124
  • 124

Follower of Richard Wilson, R.A. Penegoes, Powys 1713/14 - 1782 Colomendy, Clwyd

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Wilson, R.A.
  • Italianate Landscape, said to be a view of the Temple of Venus at Baiae
  • oil on canvas
  • 17 by 20 in.
  • 43.2 by 50.7 cm.

Provenance

Rt. Hon. Viscount Grey of Fallodon;
With Newhouse Galleries, New York;
Earl Spring, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Condition

Lined canvas. Very glossy and yellow varnish. Surface slightly thin in the tree at left. Under UV light: very difficult to read through the thick varnish but possible inpainting in the sky to address craquelure.
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Catalogue Note

This painting relates to an etching of 1821 by Thomas Hastings after an untraced work by Wilson (see W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London 1953, p. 196, cat. no. 74a, reproduced fig. 74a).