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Richard Wilson

1713–1782

Landscape Composition with an Extensive View towards the Sea, and Figures in the Foreground ?c.1770
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Biography

Richard Wilson (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 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". 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.

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  • Landscape Composition with an Extensive View towards the Sea, and Figures in the Foreground

    Richard Wilson
    ?c.1770
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  • Distant View of Maecenas’ Villa, Tivoli

    Richard Wilson
    c.1756–7
  • Lake Avernus

    Richard Wilson
    date not known
  • Strada Nomentana

    Richard Wilson
    c.1765–70
  • Hadrian’s Villa

    Richard Wilson
    c.1765
  • Maecenas’ Villa, Tivoli

    Richard Wilson
    c.1765
  • Lake Avernus and the Island of Capri

    Richard Wilson
    c.1760
  • On the Wye

    Studio of Richard Wilson
    date not known
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