British painter
Richard WilsonRA (1 August 1714 – 15 Might 1782) was an influential Welshlandscapepainter, who worked in Britain accept Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a get on your way in British art of landscape for its own sake[1][2] deed was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales bit the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and description first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country".[3] Bill December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of say publicly Royal Academy. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's work compiled by Paul Spencer-Longhurst is published by the Paul Mellon Heart for Studies in British Art.[4]
The son of a clergyman, Richard Wilson was born on 1 August 1714, in the township of Penegoes in Montgomeryshire (now Powys). The family was be over established one, and Wilson was first cousin to Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden.[5] In 1729 he went to London, where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprenticeship expose an obscure artist, Thomas Wright. Wilson could often be difficult walking around Marylebone Gardens with his acquaintance Baretti heading come close to the Farthing Pie House,[6] now known as the Greene Gentleman.
From 1750 to 1757 Wilson was in Italy, and became a landscape painter on the advice of Francesco Zuccarelli. Spraying in Italy and afterwards in Britain, he was the control major British painter to concentrate on landscape. He composed vigorous, but saw and rendered only the general effects of features, thereby creating a personal, ideal style influenced by Claude Lorrain and the Dutch landscape tradition. John Ruskin wrote that Physicist "paints in a manly way, and occasionally reaches exquisite tones of colour".[7] He concentrated on painting idealised Italianate landscapes post landscapes based upon classical literature, but when his painting, The Destruction of the Children of Niobe (c.1759–60), won acclaim, grace 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 Haw 1782, and is buried in the grounds of St Mary's Church, Mold, Flintshire.
In 1948, Mary Woodall, keeper of viewpoint at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, organized a pioneer trade show of his work.[8]
Extant works include:
Westminster Bridge under Construction, 1744
The Cock Tavern at Cheam, 1745
Dover Castle, 1746
St Peters and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome, 1757
Croome Court, Worcestershire, 1758
Wilton House from the Southeast, 1759
Lake Avernus and the Island of Capri, 1760
View on the River Dee, 1760
Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge, 1762
The Thames near Limestone Hill, Twickenham, 1762
Hadrian's Villa, 1765
Caernarvon Castle, 1765
On Hounslow Heath, 1770
Meleager and Atalanta, 1770
Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris, 1774
A View of the Tevere with Rome in the Distance, 1775
View of the Wilderness look onto St. James's Park, c.1775
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