Richard Wilson

1713–1782 · United Kingdom

Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape art and worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country". Wikipedia

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Works

“Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris”, 1774 — National Gallery
“The Destruction of the Children of Niobe”, 1760 — Yale Center for British Art
“The Cock Tavern at Cheam”, 1745 — National Gallery
“Lake Avernus and the Island of Capri”, 1760 — National Gallery
“Cicero and his two Friends, Atticus and Quintus, at his Villa at Arpinum”, 1769 — Ashmolean Museum
“The Valley of the Dee, with Chester in the Distance”, 1761 — National Gallery
“Landscape Capriccio with Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii, and the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli”, 1754 — National Museum of Western Art
“Flora Macdonald, 1722 - 1790. Jacobite heroine”, 1747 — National Galleries of Scotland
“The Destruction of the Children of Niobe”, 1768 — National Library of Wales Framed works of art collection
“Dover Castle”, 1746 — National Museum Cardiff
“Falls of Niagara”, 1775 — Wolverhampton Art Gallery
“Flora Macdonald”, 1747 — National Portrait Gallery
“Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge”, 1762 — Yale Center for British Art
“Dinas Bran from Llangollen”, 1770–1771 — Yale Center for British Art
“Pembroke Town and Castle”, 1765 — National Museum Cardiff
“On Hounslow Heath”, 1770 — National Gallery
“The Thames near Marble Hill, Twickenham”, 1762 — National Gallery
“View on the Arno, Italy (A Summer Evening; On the Arno - I)”, 1761 — National Trust
“Rome from the Ponte Molle”, 1754 — National Museum Cardiff
“View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bt.”, 1770–1771 — Yale Center for British Art
“Miss Catherine Jones of Colomendy, near Mold”, 1740 — National Library of Wales
“Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery”, 1756 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“A View of the Thames” — National Gallery
“George III and the Duke of York”, 1749 — National Gallery
“Distant View of Maecenas' Villa, Tivoli”, 1756 — National Gallery
“Meleager and Atalanta”, 1770s — Tate
“Landscape with Bathers, Cattle and Ruin”, 1772 — National Gallery
“Baths of Ischia, near Naples” — National Gallery
“River View, on the Arno (?)”, 1760 — National Gallery
“Strada Nomentana”, 1767 — National Gallery
“Hadrian's Villa”, 1765 — National Gallery
“Maecenas’ Villa, Tivoli”, 1765 — National Gallery
“Lake, Ruin and Pine Trees”, 1767 — National Gallery
“Ariccia”, 1754 — National Gallery
“Hounslow Heath” — National Gallery
“Francesco Zuccarelli”, 1751 — National Gallery
“View of Tivoli: the Cascatelle and the Villa of Maecenas”, 1752 — Dulwich Picture Gallery
“Tivoli: The Temple of the Sybil and the Campagna”, 1765 — Kimbell Art Museum
“A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)”, 1764 — Yale Center for British Art
“Dover”, 1746 — Yale Center for British Art