View of the River Dee near Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 x 737 mm (24 x 29 in)
Place of origin
Cheshire
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 20942
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of the River Dee near Eaton Hall, Cheshire by Richard Wilson, RA (Penegoes 1714 – Mold 1782), after 1760. A sun-lit landscape of the Dee with a man angling and a woman, seated, with an exposed back and the presence of an eel intensifies the symblic suggestion of courtship, in the foreground. This view of the River Dee in Cheshire looks upstream to the south-west and the distant hills of Wales. The prime original, painted for Sir Richard Grosvenor, the owner of the nearby Eaton estate, and without figures, is now at the Barber Institute, Birmingham.
Provenance
David Garrick (1717-1779) as a Landascape with a View of the Tiber, with figures on the front ground angling); by descent to Eva Marie Violette Veigel (1724-1822), David Garrick's widow, her sale, Christie's, 23rd June 1823, lot 61, bought Lambton [John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840)] for £87.3.0; thence by descent to John Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham (1884 -1970), Lambton Castle, sold by Anderson and Garland, 18th April 1932, lot 79 (as View on the Tiber); Sotheby's sale, 17th March 1982, lot 66, sold for £14,000; Good Golly Products, sold by order of the provisional liquidator, Christie's, 18th November 1983, lot 76, bought Richard, 2nd Lord Wraxall for £14,000; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: On the reverse are three paper labels and one metal label. 1)label, situated centrally to the top of the frame, printed with the following, W.Freeman and Son LTD, Picture Restorers, 43/44, Albemarle St., London, W1, Tel. Regent 0365, No. 687. Verso: 2) label, situated on the horizontal stretcher to the right side, has the same information as the first with CaR hand written on the right side of the label. Verso: 3) label, situated on the bottom horizontal side of the frame, is a small round printed label with the following, Lambton, 3812, Castle. Verso: 4)a fourth small oval, metal label is secured to the bottom horizontal side of the frame near the left corner, and has a number 4 engraved on it.
Makers and roles
Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782), publisher
References
Constable 1953 W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, p. 174, no. 5