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Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson (1713 - 1782) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Italy.  Richard Wilson is known for Landscape and portrait painting.

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. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' He is considered to be the father of landscape painting in Britain.

The son of a clergyman, Wilson was born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. The family was an old and respected one, and Wilson was first cousin to Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. In 1729 he went to London where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprenticeship of an obscure artist, Thomas Wright. 

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 pe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3252 characters.]  Artist bio

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THE VILLA BORGHESE, ROME , 1754

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VIEW OF DOVER

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River mouth with peasants dancing

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An extensive river landscape, with fishermen in the foreground

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Figures in a landscape with ruins

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A classical wooded landscape with ruins, a traveller on a path and figures resting by a river

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