Richard Wilson (painter)
Richard Wilson (August 1, 1714 - May, 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
Life 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.
Extant works include:
LandscapesCaernarfon CastleDolbadarn CastleDover CastleLake Avernus with a SarcophagusLydford Waterfall, TavistockRiver at PenegoesThe Garden of the Villa Madama, RomeValley of the Mawddach with Cader IdrisView at TivoliView in Windsor Great ParkCilgerran CastleClassical Landscape, Strada NomentanaConway CastleDolgellau BridgeItalian Scene with an archAcqua Acetosa, on the TiberCoast Scene near NaplesThe Old Welsh Bridge, ShrewsburyRome from the Ponte Molle (1754)Dinas Bran Castle, near Llangollen (1770 c.)Pembroke Town and Castle (1774)
PortraitsPortrait of a Lady: Maid of HonourSelf-portraitBoulter Tomlinson (1749)Sir Edward Lloyd (1750)
OtherCeyx and Alcyone (1768) See also: English school of painting
External link http://www.newi.ac.uk/morrisge/wilson.htm -- "Richard Wilson, R.A. 1713-1782 Welsh landscape painter"Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle (c.1765)
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