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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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Ceyx and Alcyone
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1768
Oil on canvas
101.6x127.1cm
National Museums
Painting ID:: 35402
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Ceyx_and_Alcyone
mk102
1768
Oil on canvas
101.6x127.1cm
National Museums
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Lake Avernus I, by Richard Wilson,
Lake Avernus I, by Richard Wilson, c. 1765
Painting ID:: 61615
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Lake_Avernus_I,_by_Richard_Wilson,
Lake Avernus I, by Richard Wilson, c. 1765
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River Scene with Castle,
River Scene with Castle, 1751-1757, Richard Wilson V&A Museum no. 246&:1-1876
Painting ID:: 61616
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River_Scene_with_Castle,
River Scene with Castle, 1751-1757, Richard Wilson V&A Museum no. 246&:1-1876
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the destruction of the children of niobe
1760 oil on canvas 147.4x188cm
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Painting ID:: 68811
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the_destruction_of_the_children_of_niobe
1760 oil on canvas 147.4x188cm
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the thames near twickemham
1762 oil on canvas 56x88cm
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Painting ID:: 68854
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the_thames_near_twickemham
1762 oil on canvas 56x88cm
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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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