'Il Mascherone,' a Rocaille Fountain on the Grounds of the Villa Borghese

Richard WilsonWW-1749-013342

1749·Black chalk with touches of opaque white watercolor on blue laid paper·20 × 23.5 cm (7 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1749
Medium: Black chalk with touches of opaque white watercolor on blue laid paper
Dimensions: 20 × 23.5 cm (7 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Richard Wilson

Artist

Richard Wilson

Painting

Richard Wilson was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape art and worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country". In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's work compiled by Paul Spencer-Longhurst is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

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