Richard Wilson
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
c. 1756-5742.9 x 53.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1905
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 25
Provenance
William Lock, Norbury Park, near Leatherhead, Surrey
William Parsons
Benjamin Booth, London, by 1790–died 1807
his son, Reverend Richard Sawley Booth, died 1807
his sister, Marianne, Lady Ford, London, by 1814–died 1849
?Richard Ford, 1849–at least 1851
?Hon. G.A.F. Cavendish-Bentinck, until died 1891
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 11 July 1891, nr. 537, to Lesser
?with Lesser Lesser, London, from 1891
George A. Hearn, New York, until 1905
Other works by Richard Wilson
The Convent on a Rock (Santa Maria Aventina)
after 1770
after 1770
The white monk
c. 1765-75
c. 1765-75
A stormy landscape with figures by ruins
The White Monk
c. 1762
c. 1762
Westminster Bridge under Construction from the West
1744
1744