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Richard Wilson (painter)

Richard Wilson RA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welsh 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[1][2] 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".[3] In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's work compiled by Paul Spencer-Longhurst is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.[4]

Richard Wilson

(1714-08-01)1 August 1714

Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, Great Britain

15 May 1782(1782-05-15) (aged 67)

Colomendy Hall near Llanferres, Denbighshire, Wales, Great Britain

Landscapes

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Other

Francis Ayscough

In 1948, Mary Woodall, keeper of art at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, organized a pioneer exhibition of his work.[8]


Extant works include:

Postle, Martin and , Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting, New Haven and London, 2014

Robin Simon

, ed. (1911). "Wilson, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 695.

Chisholm, Hugh

, ed. (1900). "Wilson, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 120–23.

Lee, Sidney

Cole, Timothy. (New York : The Century Co., 1902) pp. 67–76.

Old English masters

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. (London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2014).

Richard Wilson: Online Catalogue Raisonné

Sutton, Denys & Clement, Ann. An Italian sketchbook: drawings made by the artist in Rome and its environs (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).

Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Gallery, London, 1982).

Solkin, David H.

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

Davies, John

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).

at the Art UK site

285 artworks by or after Richard Wilson

on Google Art Project (50 works)

Works by Richard Wilson

on ArtCyclopedia

Works by Richard Wilson

entry in the Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art

Richard Wilson

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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