Richard Wilson (painter)
Richard Wilson | |
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 Portrait of Richard Wilson by Anton Raphael Mengs (1752) | |
| Born | 1 August 1714 Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, Great Britain |
| Died | 15 May 1782 (aged 67) |
Richard Wilson
Life
The son of a clergyman, Richard Wilson was born on 1 August 1714, in the village of Penegoes in
From 1750 to 1757 Wilson was in Italy, and became a landscape painter on the advice of Francesco Zuccarelli. Painting in Italy and afterwards in Britain, he was the first major British painter to concentrate on landscape. He composed well, but saw and rendered only the general effects of nature, thereby creating a personal, ideal style influenced by Claude Lorrain and the Dutch landscape tradition. John Ruskin wrote that Wilson "paints in a manly way, and occasionally reaches exquisite tones of colour".[7] He concentrated on painting idealised Italianate landscapes and landscapes based upon classical literature, but when his painting, The Destruction of the Children of Niobe (c.1759–60), won acclaim, he gained many commissions from landowners seeking classical portrayals of their estates. Among Wilson's pupils was the painter Thomas Jones. His landscapes were acknowledged as an influence by Constable, John Crome and Turner.
Wilson died at Colomendy, Denbighshire on 15 May 1782, and is buried in the grounds of St Mary's Church, Mold, Flintshire.
Works
In 1948, Mary Woodall, keeper of art at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, organized a pioneer exhibition of his work.[8]
Extant works include:
- Landscapes
- Caernarfon Castle
- Cock Tavern at Cheam, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Dolbadarn Castle
- Dover Castle
- Lake Avernus with a Sarcophagus, at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- Lydford Waterfall, Tavistock
- River at Penegoes
- The Garden of the Villa Madama, Rome
- Valley of the Mawddach with Cader Idris
- View at Tivoli
- View in Windsor Great Park
- Cilgerran Castle
- Classical Landscape, Strada Nomentana
- Conway Castle
- Dolgellau Bridge
- The Niagara Falls'
- Pistyll Rhaeadr, Aber Falls
- Solitude (or Landskip with Hermits)
- Other
- Ceyx and Alcyone (1768)
- Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol and tutor to King George III of Great Britain with his pupils
- Miss Catherine Jones of Colomendy, near Mold (1740)
References
- References
- ISBN 978-0-8143-2663-3. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ Davies, Jenkins et al. (2008) p. 966.
- ^ Davies, Jenkins et al. (2008) p.965
- ^ Richard Wilson - Online!, paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk 10 December 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2016. Archived here.
- ^ Steegman, John Edward Horatio; Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog (1959). "WILSON, RICHARD (1713-1782), landscape painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ "British History Online". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ John Ruskin. Modern Painters, Volume I: Part II. 189.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
Further reading
- Postle, Martin and Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting, New Haven and London, 2014
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 695.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 120–23.
- Cole, Timothy. Old English masters (New York : The Century Co., 1902) pp. 67–76.
- Fletcher, Beaumont. Richard Wilson. R.A. The Makers of British Art (Walter Scott, London, 1908).
- Edwards, R. 'Richard Wilson and his pupil', in Country Life (1945 November)
- Ford, B. The Drawings of Richard Wilson (1951)
- Constable, W. G. Richard Wilson (1953)
- Spencer-Longhurst, Paul. Richard Wilson: Online Catalogue Raisonné (London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2014).
- Sutton, Denys & Clement, Ann. An Italian sketchbook: drawings made by the artist in Rome and its environs (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).
- Solkin, David H., Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Gallery, London, 1982).
- ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
- Wright, T., 'Some Account of The Life of Richard Wilson, Esq. RA, with testimonies to his genius and memory, and remarks on his landscapes,' (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824).
External links
Media related to Richard Wilson (painter) at Wikimedia Commons
- 285 artworks by or after Richard Wilson at the Art UK site
- Works by Richard Wilson[Google Art Project(50 works)
- Works by Richard Wilson on ArtCyclopedia
- Richard Wilson entry in the Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art
- The Mystery of the British Landscape Master, The New York Times, 4 June 2010
- Museo virtuale della città di Tivoli Tivoli - Opere pittoriche su Tivoli
- W.G. Constable archive
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