Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
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Sir Watkin WilliamsWynn and his Mother
Purchased 1947
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
architecture
aristocrat
arts and entertainment
clothing and personal items
collector / patron
Denbighshire
Dinas Brân
dress
dressing / undressing
estate
family
glove
hat
headdress
hill
individuals: female
individuals: male
landowner
landscape
man
mother
named individuals
objects
people
places
pointing
portraits
royalty and social rank
society
son
standing
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK man-made landmarks
Wales
wall
widow
Williams-Wynn, Frances, Lady
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir
woman
wooded
work and occupations
Wynnstay Park
<p>Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a hugely wealthy Welsh landowner, and a member of the ‘Honourable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons’. Reynolds shows him with his mother. In the background is the Welsh fortress of Dinas Bran, associated with the Welsh kingdom before the English conquest in the thirteenth century. Williams-Wynn commissioned two paintings of the same view from the landscape painter Richard Wilson.</p><p>Sir Watkin was proud of his descent from the ancient British and Welsh kings, but he was also a sophisticated London gentleman with a grand house in the West End designed by the architect Robert Adam.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
26 July 2004 – 27 June 2005
2005-06-27
26 July 2004 – 27 June 2005
2005-06-27
2004-07-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-07-26
Art and National Identity
Collection based display
29 November 2012 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
1 December 2012
2012-12-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-29
Gallery 15
Collection based display
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and his Mother
support: 2381 × 1816 mm
Purchased 1947
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<span class="text14">Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a hugely wealthy Welsh      landowner, and a member of the ‘Honourable and Loyal Society of      Ancient Britons’. Reynolds shows him with his mother. In the      background is the Welsh fortress of Dinas Bran, associated with the Welsh      kingdom before the English conquest in the thirteenth century.      Williams-Wynn commissioned two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the same view from the      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> painter Richard Wilson. </span>
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<span class="text14">Sir Watkin was proud of his descent from </span><span class="text6">the ancient British and Welsh kings, but he</span><span class="text14"> </span><span class="text15">was also a sophisticated London      gentleman</span><span class="text14"> with a grand house in the West      End designed by the architect Robert Adam. </span>
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing architecture aristocrat arts and entertainment clothing and personal items collector / patron Denbighshire Dinas Brân dress dressing / undressing estate family glove hat headdress hill individuals: female individuals: male landowner landscape man mother named individuals objects people places pointing portraits royalty and social rank society son standing townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK man-made landmarks Wales wall widow Williams-Wynn, Frances, Lady Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir woman wooded work and occupations Wynnstay Park