The Murder
Richard Wilson, RA (Penegoes 1714 – Mold 1782)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1752 - 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
432 x 533 mm (17 x 21 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 267105
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Murder by Richard Wilson, RA (Penegoes 1714 – Mold 1782), circa 1752. A lightning storm with a round castle on a rock on the upper ight. A man is lying murdered whilst a woman by his side is begging for her life from an assassin. Similar to another murderous scene in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool and a precursor to the artist's most important work, The Destruction of the Children of Niobe.
Provenance
Christie's 24 February 1798 (106 as A Landscape with a Storm); Benjamin Booth (1732 - 1807); the Reverend Reginal Sawley Booth (1762 - 1807); Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849) & Sir Richard Ford (1758 - 1806); Sir Francis Clare Ford; Captain Richard Ford; his sale, Christie's 19 June 1929 (14), bought Percy Moore Turner (1905-1952); Christie's 28 March 1947 (118), bought Brinsley Ford (1908 - 1999); on loan from Augustine Ford, from the collection of Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
Makers and roles
Richard Wilson, RA (Penegoes 1714 – Mold 1782), artist