LWL Ptg. 100 Framed, on view in Administration Area
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the Thames from the right bank, nearly opposite Marble Hill Park. The white building visible through the trees on the right is Lady Suffolk’s House, Marble Hill. A sailboat floats on the water. A rider on horseback leads a second horse along the riverbank. Figures gather at leisure under the foreground tree, while across the river other stroll on paths through the lawn
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Formerly attributed to Richard Wilson, now attributed to his circle., and Another version of this scene is in the National Gallery. This is reproduced in W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, plate 57a. Horace Walpole records in his copy of the exhibition catalogue that Wilson exhibited a painting of the View of the Thames near Richmond at the Society of Arts 1762. This painting is not included in David Solkin’s Richard Wilson Online Catalogue Raisonné (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art).
A panoramic view towards St. Paul’s Cathedral includes a low horizon punctuated by Wren church steeples and a large expanse of cloudy sky. Fashionable figures stroll on the terrace of Somerset house while the river bustles with boats
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and In the manner of Antonio Joli and formerly attributed to both him and Samual Scott.