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Title

Landscape – solitude

1811

Artist

Richard Westall

England

1765 - 04 Dec 1836

An image of Landscape – solitude by Richard Westall
Alternate image of Landscape – solitude by Richard Westall

Details

Date

1811

Media category

Painting

Materials used

oil on canvas

Dimensions

102.6 x 128.3 cm canvas; 118.0 x 143.0 x 7.0 cm frame

Signature & date

Signed and dated l.r., black paint "R Westall/ 1811".

Credit

Purchased 1970

Location

Not on display

Accession number

27.1971

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Artist information

Richard Westall

Works in the collection

1

Shown in 3 exhibitions

Exhibition history

Provenance

Mr Clarke, pre 1814, See exhibitions. Then Col Harrison, Taunton; Mrs Harrison, Bath

C Harrison, pre 21 Mar 1969?, Bournemouth/England, Sold Christie's London, 21 March 1969, no 5.

Agnew's, London, 21 Mar 1969-Jun 1970, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1970. Purchased by Agnew's from Christie's London, 21 March 1969

Referenced in 16 publications

Bibliography

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, col illus p 19.

Anon. ('Brush'), Liverpool Mercury, no 114, 'To the editors of the Liverpool Mercury', Liverpool, 03 Sep 1813, p 75.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 210, illus p 210.

Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, p 229.

Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 177, no 2291.

Christopher Menz, Regency - British Art & Design 1800-1830, Adelaide, 1998, pp 74–75, no 129, col illus p 74.

Anon. ('P P'), Liverpool Mercury, no 113, 'Liverpool Academy of Arts – To the editors of the Liverpool Mercury', Liverpool, 27 Aug 1813, p 70.

Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 9129 (22 June).

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 22.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 5.

The exhibition of the Liverpool Academy... the fourth, Liverpool, 1813, p 3, no 4.

Catalogue of an exhibition of a selection of the works of Richard Westall, RA, including two hundred and forty pictures and drawings which have never before been exhibited, London, 1814, p 3, no 2.

Catalogue of fine English pictures, London, 21 Mar 1969, p 6, no 5.

Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1970, Sydney, 1970, p 7315 (26 June), p 7323 (24 July), p 7324 (24 July), p 7329 (28 Sep).

Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 7404 (26 Mar).

The exhibition of the Royal Academy...the forthy-fifth, London, 1813, p 11, no 205.