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studio of <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-wilson-606" aria-label="More by Richard Wilson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Richard Wilson</a>
Niagara Falls
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
Canada
countries and continents
natural features (non-UK)
Niagara Falls
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USA
water: inland
waterfall
<p>Possibly from Turner's collection. Wilson's picture of the Falls is in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, and the attribution of this reduced version has been debated between the painter himself, his studio, and Turner, if indeed it belonged to him. The subject would certainly have appealed to him, and it is possible the picture hung at Queen Anne Street.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2001</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 2001 – 15 July 2001
2001-07-15
5 March 2001 – 15 July 2001
2001-07-15
2001-03-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-03-05
House and Studio [TB CL2001]
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Niagara Falls
support: 1003 × 1365 mm
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
<p>Possibly from Turner's collection. Wilson's picture  of the Falls is in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery,  and the attribution of this reduced version has  been debated between the painter himself, his studio, and Turner, if indeed it belonged to him.  The subject would certainly have appealed  to him, and it is possible the picture hung  at Queen Anne Street.</p>
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2001-08-10T00:00:00
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<p>[from]<b> Nos. 545–60: Works Formerly Attributed to Turner</b></p>
<p><b>Nos. 545–7a: Richard Wilson (1713 or 1714–1782) or his Studio</b></p>
<p><b>547. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-niagara-falls-n01891" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01891</span></a>]<b> Niagara Falls</b></p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (1891)</p>
<p>Canvas, 39 1/2 × 53 3/4 (100 × 136·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> ?Garnons Bequest 1854 <i>or</i> Turner Bequest 1856 (see No. 546 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-valley-with-a-bridge-over-a-river-n01890" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01890</span></a>]); transferred to the Tate gallery 1953.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 153, 177; W.G. Constable, <i>Richard Wilson</i>
1953, pp. 95, 130, 230–31, rep. pl. 126c.</p>
<p>For the possible mix-up between pictures from the Garnons Bequest and those from the Turner Bequest see No. 546 [<span>N01890</span>]. In this case Davies was again responsible for the reattribution to Turner and his Bequest, entitling the picture ‘Common with Sandpit (?)’, but Constable and other experts have much more decisively returned it to Wilson or his studio. It is a version of the larger picture now in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> by William Byrne in 1774 as by Richard Wilson from 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> made on the spot by Lieutenant William Pierie of the Royal Artillery in 1768.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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Canada countries and continents natural features (non-UK) Niagara Falls places USA waterfall water: inland