
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Sold for £8,287.50 inc. premium
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Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 June 2008, lot 48
Exhibited
Possibly, London, Society of Artists, 1761, no. 137 or 138
Literature
Possibly, W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, p. 207, no. 94 (a), possibly version 1 or 3
P. Spencer-Longhurst, Richard Wilson online, ref. P159A
Richard Wilson painted a number of versions of this composition (see: Constable, ibid, cat. no. 94). The present work is closely related to a drawing from Wilson's Italian period, circa 1753, Lake Nemi with Two Friars, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (DYCE.643).