Richard Wilson
Welsh Romantic Painter, ca.1713-1782 was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' Wilson is considered to be the father of landscape painting in Britain. The son of a clergyman, Wilson was born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. The family was an old and respected one, and Wilson was first cousin to Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. In 1729 he went to London where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprentership of an obscure artist, Thomas Wright. From 1750 to 1757 he was in Italy and adopted landscape on the advice of Francesco Zuccarelli. Painting in Italy and afterwards in England, he was the first major British painter to primarily 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. According to John Ruskin, he "paints in a manly way, and occasionally reaches exquisite tones of colour." He concentrated on painting Italianate landscapes and landscapes based upon classsical literature, but when his painting The Destruction of the Children of Niobe (c.1759-60) won high acclaim he gained many commissions from wealthy families seeking classical potrayals of their estates.

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Richard Wilson Ariccia, umgesturtzter Baum oil painting


Ariccia, umgesturtzter Baum
c. 1750(1750) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 47.5 x 73 cm (18.7 x 28.7 in) cjr
Painting ID::  90674
Richard Wilson
Ariccia, umgesturtzter Baum
c. 1750(1750) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 47.5 x 73 cm (18.7 x 28.7 in) cjr
   
   
     

Richard Wilson Ruinen der Villa des Maecenas in Tivoli oil painting


Ruinen der Villa des Maecenas in Tivoli
c. 1757(1757) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 122 x 170 cm cjr
Painting ID::  91564
Richard Wilson
Ruinen der Villa des Maecenas in Tivoli
c. 1757(1757) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 122 x 170 cm cjr
   
   
     

Richard Wilson Ruinen der Villa des Maecenas in Tivoli oil painting


Ruinen der Villa des Maecenas in Tivoli
c. 1757(1757) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 122 X 170 cm cjr
Painting ID::  91706
Richard Wilson
Ruinen der Villa des Maecenas in Tivoli
c. 1757(1757) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 122 X 170 cm cjr
   
   
     

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     Welsh Romantic Painter, ca.1713-1782 was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' Wilson is considered to be the father of landscape painting in Britain. The son of a clergyman, Wilson was born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. The family was an old and respected one, and Wilson was first cousin to Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. In 1729 he went to London where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprentership of an obscure artist, Thomas Wright. From 1750 to 1757 he was in Italy and adopted landscape on the advice of Francesco Zuccarelli. Painting in Italy and afterwards in England, he was the first major British painter to primarily 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. According to John Ruskin, he "paints in a manly way, and occasionally reaches exquisite tones of colour." He concentrated on painting Italianate landscapes and landscapes based upon classsical literature, but when his painting The Destruction of the Children of Niobe (c.1759-60) won high acclaim he gained many commissions from wealthy families seeking classical potrayals of their estates.

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