View of Windsor Forest
Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1734 - 1782
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
451 x 703 mm
Place of origin
Windsor
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515624
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Windsor Forest by Richard Wilson, RA (Penegoes 1714 – Mold 1782). Windsor forest, high ground in foreground with deer, horse and rider in pond below group of pine trees and extensive view beyond. Gilt frame, labelled 'A View in Windsor Forest, R. Wilson RA 1714-1782. From the Collection of Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire'.
Provenance
Probably Wynn Ellis sale, Christie’s 6 May 1876, lot 130 and bought by Agnew; David Bromilow & family, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 19 July 1926; bought by Leggatt; with Scott & Fowles, New York; E. Aldred, New York; sold by a ‘Long Island Collector’, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 1946, lot 128 and bought by John Mitchell, London; with Leggatt, London 1947; bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782), publisher