Richard Wilson
Paintings
Kew Gardens. The Pagoda and Bridge
Meleager and Atalanta
A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
Llyn-y-Cau. Cader Idris
The Destruction of Niobes Children
The Head of Lake Nemi
The White Monk
Solitude
Cader Idris, with the Mawddach River
Wilton House from the Southeast
Lake Albano
A Summer Evening, Caernarfon Castle
Italian Landscape, Morning
Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle
View of the Wilderness in Saint James's Park
Hadrian's Villa
Lago d'Agnano with the Grotta del Cane
Cicero with his friend Atticus and brother Quintus, at his villa at Arpinum
Llyn-y-Cau, Cader IdrisThe Destruction of Niobe's Children The Head of Lake Nemi
The White Monk
Ariccia, fallen tree
Croome Court, Worcestershire
Mont Snowdon from Llyn Nantll
The Thames at Twickenham
Hounslow Heath
Ruins of the "Villa of Maecenas" in Tivoli
Drawings
Landscape with Monte Cavo
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Kew Gardens. The Pagoda and Bridge
Richard Wilson RA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential British landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country". In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy.
Life
The son of a clergyman, Richard Wilson was born on 1 August 1714, in the village of Penegoes in Montgomeryshire (now Powys). The family was an established one, and Wilson was first cousin to Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden.[4] In 1729 he went to London, where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprenticeship of an obscure artist, Thomas Wright. Wilson could often be found walking around Marylebone Gardens with his acquaintance Baretti heading toward the Farthing Pie House,[5] now known as the Green Man Public House.[6]
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 in Colomendy, Denbighshire on 15 May 1782, and is buried in the grounds of St Mary's Church, Mold, Flintshire.
St Peters and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome
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
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 George III of England with his pupils
References
Steven J. Gores (2000). Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal and Visual Readings of British Culture, 1750–1820. Wayne State University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-8143-2663-3. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
Davies, Jenkins et al (2008) p. 966.
Davies, Jenkins et al (2008) p.965
Welsh Biography online
"British History Online". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
"The Green Man". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
John Ruskin. Modern Painters, Volume I: Part II. 189.
Kenneth Garlick, ‘Woodall, Mary (1901–1988)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
Bibliography
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Wilson, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography 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).
Encyclopædia Britannica 1911. Richard Wilson.
R. Edwards, 'Richard Wilson and his pupil', in Country Life (1945 November)
B. Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson (1951)
W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson (1953)
Sutton, Denys & Clement, Ann. An Italian sketchbook: drawings made by the artist in Rome and its environs (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).
David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Gallery, London, 1982).
John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (Eds.). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
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