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View of a country house and lake (formerly 'The Thames looking towards Syon House')

Maker

(artist)
1714-1782

Title

View of a country house and lake (formerly 'The Thames looking towards Syon House')

Date of Production

(circa) 1755 - 1765

Medium

black chalk with stumping, white and red chalk and graphite on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 52.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.102

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

Richard Wilson was the first major British artist to go to Italy, where, in the early 1750s, he produced idealised classical landscapes using compositional methods favoured by seventeenth-century artists such as Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. On his return to England he painted a number of views of country houses. This highly finished drawing of an unidentified estate would most probably have been done in the hopes of securing a commission for a painting.

Provenance

George Guy, Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), L.2600; his estate sale, Christie’s, 20-21 May 1896, lot 445 (as 'Landscape, with a river, and men fishing'); purchased there by Richards (? £10, with 3 others); Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986 ...More

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973

English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection
, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner
, Harrogate, 1968 ...Less

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 4
ill. on p. 81

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 118
ill. on p. 259

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
no. 96, p. 76
ill. on p. 95 ...More

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 8

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 4
ill.

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 67

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 81

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 1

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 6 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left corner: very small circle (see drawing in file).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Earl of Warwick (L.2600).

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