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Richard Wilson (artist) Welsh, 1712/1714 - 1782 Solitude, c. 1762/1770 oil on canvas Overall: 142.1 x 210.1 cm (55 15/16 x 82 11/16 in.) framed: 163.8 x 231.6 x 7.6 cm (64 1/2 x 91 3/16 x 3 in.) Paul Mellon Collection 1983.1.45 |
Object 6 of 8
Provenance
Perhaps (Maddox Street Gallery), London, 1828(?). Mr. Gray, Ilkley, Yorkshire, after whose death it was bought 1839 by (Chaplin),[1] from whom it was probably purchased ca. 1839 by Andrew Fountaine [1808-1874], Narford Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk;[2] by descent to Andrew Fountaine [b. 1918] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 23 June 1972, no. 57 repro.), bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, for Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1983.
[1] Descriptions of the work(s) owned by the Maddox Street Gallery and Mr. Gray quoted in W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, (London, 1953), 169, could apply equally well to the Washington picture and to an almost identical version in the M.D.G. Robinson collection (formerly in the Col. M.H. Grant collection, and also listed in Constable 1953, 169). [2] Sir Geoffrey Agnew to Paul Mellon, 2 May 1972, in NGA curatorial files. It was certainly in Fountaine's possession by 1854, when it was noted in G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 4 vols. (London, 1854), 3: 431.
Associated Names
- Chaplin
- Fountaine, Algernon Charles
- Fountaine, Andrew
- Fountaine, Andrew
- Fountaine, Charles Andrew, Vice Admiral
- Fountaine, Mary
- Gray, Mr.
- Maddox Street Gallery
- Mellon, Paul, Mr.
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