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Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle
Richard Wilson1765/1766
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The view is from the north west, with the hump of Clogwyn y Gareg below the summit and Mynydd Mawr to the left. By 18th-century standards, Wilson has remained quite truthful to the scene but he has steepened the mountain slopes in order to dramatise the composition. His changes of mind are clearly visible on the ridge to the right.
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- Title: Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle
- Creator: Richard Wilson
- Creator Lifespan: 1713/1782
- Creator Nationality: Welsh
- Creator Gender: Penegoes, Montgoms [now in Powys]
- Creator Death Place: Colomendy, Denbs [now in Clwyd]
- Date Created: 1765/1766
- tag / style: Richard Wilson; landscape; Romanticism; Snowdon; Clogwyn y Gareg; Mynydd Mawr; Llyn Nantlle; mountain; slopes; ridge; tree; lake; sky; fishing
- Subject matter: Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle
- Physical Dimensions: w1270 x h1010 cm (Without frame)
- Artist biographical information: Wilson was a seminal figure in British landscape painting. He was the first native artist who convincingly bridged the gap between the academic landscape and the topographical view.
- Additional artwork information: This painting is one of the masterpieces of an artist often regarded as the founder of the English landscape school. Wilson’s models were French classical landscapists, notably Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. Wilson echoes their concern for the structure of the landscape, a sense of balance and order, and a feeling for a beautiful, all over light. With these precepts he has fused a marvellous sense of place, a concern for the particular in nature which became one of the mainsprings of the Romantic movement. To learn more about this painting, please follow this link: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/wilson.aspx To learn more about the Walker Art Gallery’s 18th-century collection, please follow this link: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/
- Type: oil on canvas
- Rights: Purchased in 1935
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