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Title
St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome
1757-1764
Artist
Richard Wilson
Wales
1713 or 1714 - 11 May 1782
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Details
Date
1757-1764
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions
70.5 x 132.0 cm stretcher; 94.0 x 155.0 x 10.0 cm frame
Signature & date
Signed l.l., black paint "RW" [in monogram]. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1970
Accession number
25.1971
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Richard Wilson
St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Exhibition history
European masters and Australian painting from Australian collections:
- The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 02 Oct 1979 -
- State Hermitage Museum, Russia 04 Dec 1979–18 Feb 1980
European Old Masters 16th-19th Century from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
Provenance
Sir William Young, 1757-1764, Wiltshire/England, Painted for Sir William Young (1725–88), Standlynch House, Wiltshire, between 1757 and 1764. Presumably his sale, Prestage, Standlynch House, 16 July 1764
Hussey family, 1764-1910, William Hussey MP (1724–1813), Upper Eldon, Hampshire, and Salisbury, Wiltshire; by descent to William Hussey; purchased from him by Sulley & Co, London, 1910.
Sulley and Co., London, 1910, London/England, Purcahsed from William Hussey, London, 1910.
American Art Association, pre 22 Apr 1915, United States of America, Blakeslee Galleries sale, American Art Association, Plaza Hotel, New York, 21–23 Apr 1915, 2nd day, no 186 ('Rome and the Campagna'). Purchased at this sale for $1500 by F Ward.
F. Ward, 22 Apr 1915-pre 1953, on loan to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC, by 1953
Leggatt Bros., London, pre 09 Dec 1969, London/England, Purchased by Agnew's, London, 9 Dec 1969.
Agnew's, London, 09 Dec 1969-21 Jul 1970, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1970.
Referenced in 20 publications
Bibliography
Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, p 14, col illus p 14.
W G Constable, Burlington Magazine,vol 96, no 614, 'Richard Wilson: some pentimenti', London, May 1954, pp 139–47: p 147.
Brinsley Ford, Burlington Magazine, vol 94, no 596, 'Richard Wilson in Rome: II – The Claudean landscapes', London, Nov 1952, p 312.
Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'European', Sydney, 1988, pp 36–56: p 38.
Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 214, illus p 214.
European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, p 52, no 142, illus p 52.
The Tate Gallery 1974–6: illustrated catalogue of acquisitions, London, 1978, p 43. the illustration on p 22 captioned as Wilson is in fact Glover no 59.1975.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 22.
Master paintings: recent acquisitions, London, 1976, p 40, under no 49.
Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 7404 (26 Mar).
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 5.
W G Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, pp 75, 165, 220, illus fig 111a.
William Forster, British gallery of engravings from pictures of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch and English schools..., London, 1807, np.
Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales special number, Sydney, Jul 1972, pp 63–75: p 63.
Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 9129 (22 June ).
Portrait of a Gallery, 'European art in the old courts', Sydney, 1984, pp 14–23: pp 22–23.
Adrian Bury, Richard Wilson RA, the grand classic, Leigh-on-Sea, 1947, pl 26.
European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian painting of the 19th century [in Russian], Moscow, 1979-1980, np, no 39.
Illustrated catalogue of the extensive collections of highly valuable paintings.... from the widely known Blakeslee Galleries...on the evening herein stated, New York, 21 Apr 1915-23 Apr 1915, np, no 186, illus.
Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1970, Sydney, 1970, pp 7323–24 (24 July), p 7329 (28 Sep).