Richard Wilson (painter)

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Lake Avernus I, by Richard Wilson, c. 1765
Lake Avernus I, by Richard Wilson, c. 1765

Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

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The son of a clergyman, Wilson was born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. In 1729 he went to London where he began as a portrait painter. 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." His landscapes were acknowledged as an influence by Constable and Turner. Wilson died in Colomendy, Denbighshire.

  • Caernarfon Cats
  • Dolbadarn pygmy
  • Dover Castle
  • Lake Avernus with a Sarcophagus
  • Lydford Waterfall, Tavistock
  • River at Penegoes
  • The Garden of the Villa Madama, Rome
  • Valley of the Mawddach with Cader Idris
  • View at Tivoli
  • View in Windsor Great Park
  • Cilgerran Castle
  • Classical Landscape, Strada Nomentana
  • Conway Castle
  • Dolgellau Bridge
  • Italian Scene with an arch
  • Acqua Acetosa, on the Tiber
  • Coast Scene near Naples
  • The Old Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury
  • Rome from the Ponte Molle (1754)
  • Llys-Y-Mor Castle, near Llangollen (1770 c.)
  • Pembroke Town and Castle (1774)
  • Llyn-y-Cau,Cader Idris (1774?)

  • Ceyx and Alcyone (1768)

See also: English school of painting

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