About this lot
Description
* Circle of Richard Wilson, RA (1714 -1782)
Figures resting near ruins in an expansive landscape
oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood English Rococo frame
45 x 66.5cm
Provenance:
The Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc.
Footnote:
According to an old label to the reverse, the present painting was once owned by James Northcote (1746-1831) who gave it to William Hillman on 25th May 183(0?).
All proceeds from the sale of this and another eleven paintings (lots 57-68) will benefit the activities of the Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc., which continues its founder’s support of research, publishing, presentation, and practice in museums and music. Throughout his long life, Mr. Lunde supported more than forty museums in his native New York, across the United States, and in Europe with loans, gifts, and funding. Mr. Lunde was a proud New Yorker with roots in Norway. He was keenly interested in nineteenth-century Scandinavian and Swiss landscape painting, Old master painting, and Asian decorative arts.
Condition report:
Framed 63 x 84cm
The painting is executed in oil on a canvas support which has been lined. The canvas tension is sound and the picture is generally in plane. The pain layers have a network of age cracks and is stable overall. There is some wear in the darker paint passages which have been overpainted, this is fairly well matched to the original. The varnish is glossy, even and slightly yellowed.
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