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RICHARD WILSON, R.A. | CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE, CASTLE AND HILLS

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RICHARD WILSON, R.A.

Penegoes, Powys 1713/14 - 1782 Colomendy, Clwyd

CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE, CASTLE AND HILLS


oil on canvas

canvas: 23 by 29 in.; 58.5 by 73.7 cm.

framed: 29½ by 36 in.; 74.9 by 91.4 cm. 

Possibly, Mr. Benson (tutor to Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow), 1752;

The Rev. Dr. Marlow (1758 - 1828), Oxford, by 1814;

By inheritance to his wife Mrs. Marlow;

By descent to her nephew, the Rev. G.T. Clare, Bainton Rectory, Driffield, Yorkshire;

By whom sold to Mr. A. Coventry, Edinburgh, 1862;

By descent to his great-nephew Commander Crichton-Maitland;

From whom acquired by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, 1948;

By whom sold to J. Gourdes de Souza;

With Agnew's, London, 1951;

By whom sold to Peter Temple, by 1952;

With Agnew's, London, 1965;

By whom sold to a private collection, London;

Private collection, New York.

W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, 1953, pp. 78-9, 204, reproduced pl. 84a;

B. Ford, "Richard Wilson in Rome II: The Claudean Landscapes" in The Burlington Magazine, 1952, pp. 307-08, reproduced fig. 8.

London, British Institution, 1814, no. 159, as "Italian Scene," lent by Dr. Marlow;

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Eighteenth Century, 1954 - 1955 Winter Exhibition, no. 114;

London, Tate Gallery, Richard Wilson, The Landscape of Reaction, 1982, no. 61;

New York, Richard L. Feigen and Co., Richard Wilson and the British Arcadia, 2010, no. 3.

Born in Wales as the son of a clergyman, Richard Wilson went on to become one of the leading classical landscapists of his time and a founding member of the Royal Academy. Wilson studied in Italy from 1750 to 1757 before settling in Britain. The present landscape can be dated to the artist's Italian sojourn; Brinsley Ford cited it in his 1952 article (see Literature) as one of the key transition paintings between Wilson's time in Venice and Rome. Ford dates it circa 1752, just after Wilson arrives in Rome or perhaps just before he leaves Venice. The influence of Venetian painters including Francesco Zuccarelli and Marco Ricci is still evident here, even as Wilson begins to look more towards the Roman classicists Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin.