Oil paint on canvas
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Unknown artist, Britain
Classical Landscape with Mountains
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
classical
cottage
dog - non-specific
lake
landscape
mountain
people
periods and styles
residential
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
woman
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
Classical Landscape with Mountains
support: 356 × 457 mm
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/unknown-artist-britain-classical-landscape-with-mountains-n02982" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02982</span></a> <b>Classical Landscape with Mountains</b> <i>c</i>.1720–40</p>
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<p>Oil on canvas 356×457 (14×18)
<br/>? Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Jones
<br/>Garnons to the National Gallery 1854; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1949
<br/>PROVENANCE ...;? Richard and Catherine Jones Garnons at Colomendy by 1854
<br/>LITERATURE Davies 1946, p.181 as ‘ascribed to Wilson’; W.G. Constable, <i>Richard Wilson</i>, 1953, pp.105, 129–31
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<br/>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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is identified by a late nineteenth-century inscription in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a> on the stretcher as coming from the ‘Garnons Bequest 1854 as a Wilson’. The bequest consisted of sixteen paintings from Colomendy in Wales, where Richard Wilson retired in old age. As the paintings were not individually listed until some years later, it is not always certain which paintings actually formed part of the bequest, but <span>N02982</span> appears to have been inventoried in <i>The Return of the Pictures Acquired by the National Gallery up to 1860</i> as a ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>Classical</span></a> <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>’ by Wilson. This would not now be considered a possible attribution, and Martin Davies's description of it as ‘a Lambert-like imitation of Poussin’ is closer to the mark as the painting seems to be by an unidentifed hand of George Lambert's generation or earlier. It was also catalogued in 1929 as ‘Roman School 18th Century’.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Elizabeth Einberg and Judy Egerton, <i>The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709</i>, Tate Gallery Collections, II, London 1988
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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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adults animals: mammals architecture classical cottage dog - non-specific lake landscape mountain people periods and styles residential townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland woman wooded