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Title
Landscape – solitude
1811
Artist
Richard Westall
England
1765 - 04 Dec 1836
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Details
Date
1811
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
Accession number
27.1971
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Richard Westall
Landscape – solitude
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, 1813, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1813–1813
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
Regency - British Art & Design 1800-1830, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 08 Apr 1998–14 Jun 1998
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
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.