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WILSON, Richard

WILSON, Richard The Mawddach Valley and Cader Idris oil painting on canvas
The Mawddach Valley and Cader Idris
Painting ID::  7261
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WILSON, Richard The Mawddach Valley and Cader Idris oil painting on canvas



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  WILSON, Richard
  Welsh Romantic Painter, ca.1713-1782 British landscape painter, b. Wales. He studied in London and achieved success as a portrait painter, but after a visit to Italy (c.1750?C1756) he devoted himself to landscape in the classical tradition of Claude Lorrain. The exhibition of Wilson's Niobe in 1760 won him acclaim, and he was made a member and later librarian of the Royal Academy. His work did not become generally popular until after his death. Although his Italian landscapes did not depart from the classical tradition of picturesque Roman ruins and recumbent nymphs, his work shows considerable originality and breadth of treatment, especially in his many fine paintings of English country houses. He exerted a strong influence on subsequent landscape painting in England. On Hounslow Heath (National Gall., London) and Afternoon and Lake Nemi
  The Mawddach Valley and Cader Idris
  c. 1774 Oil on canvas, 102 x 107 cm Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool

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