Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 1 - 11th August 2021

Lot 401

Richard Wilson RA (Welsh 1714-1782)

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £7000

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Description

Richard Wilson RA (Welsh 1714-1782)

The falls of the Liri at Isola di Sora

Signed R.Wilson (lower right)

Pencil and black chalk

26.7 x 40.7cm; 10½ x 16in

Provenance:

William Lock of Norbury;

I.A. Williams;

Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1980, lot 137;

From the collection of Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980)

Literature:

Sir Brinsley Ford, Drawings of Richard Wilson (1951), p.33;

W.G.Constable, Richard Wilson (1993), p.211

For a comparable drawing of the same view Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Paul Kate Lowry and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online: A Digital Catalogue Raisonné, (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2014), no. D337