Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Wilton House from the Southeast
Date:
between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 x 56 3/4 inches (99.1 x 144.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.684
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
women | hat | river | road | lake | Palladian | architectural subject | dwelling | sketching | landscape | breeches | umbrella | stockings | water | trees | men | bridge (built work) | painter | staff (walking stick) | artist | parasol
Associated Places:
Wilton | Wiltshire | Wylye | Nadder | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
John Baskett, Painting in England: 1700-1850: the Collection of English paintings formed by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon : on Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, until August 18th, , Connoisseur, Vol. 153, London, June 1963, p. 101, N1 C75 + (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : A capital, valuable and choice collection of picture, by celebrated masters of the Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch schools. . . and a few select landscapes by Wilson : 30 May 1809, Christie's, May 30, 1809, p. 11, lot 93, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineW. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, pp. 188-9, pl. 58b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 252, 253, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 41-43,110, no. 20, pl. 20, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)John Crowley, Imperial landscapes, Britains's global visual culture 1745-1820 , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, pp. 12, 13, fig. 10, N8214.5 G7 C76 2011 + (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 76, ND466 G67 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 48 (v.1), no. 21, pl. 212, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 15-16 (v.1), no. 52, pl. 70, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 35, 80, no. 27, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 198-200, fig. 159, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Vanessa Remington, Painting paradise: The Art of the Garden, Royal Collection Trust, London, p. 166, fig. 148, N8217.G36 R46 2015 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Kimerly Rorschach, The early Georgian landscape garden, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1983, pp. 46, 48, 51, no. 50, SB467.78 .G7 R67 Oversize (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp. 195-96, n. 81b, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA)Spencer-Longhurst, Paul, with Kate Lowry and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online : A Digital Catalogue Raisonne, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2014, no. P76A, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 60 (v.1), no. 222, pl. 70, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)