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Richard Wilson (painter)
British painter
Richard WilsonRA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welshlandscapepainter, who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake[1][2] and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country".[3] In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's work compiled by Paul Spencer-Longhurst is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.[4]
Life
The son of a clergyman, Richard Wilson was born on 1 August 1714, in the village of Penegoes in Montgomeryshire (now Powys). The family was an established one, and Wilson was first cousin to Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden.[5] In 1729 he went to London, where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprenticeship of an obscure artis
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Richard Wilson
Wilson was a pioneer of landscape painting in Britain. He visited Italy and, in Rome, met the French painter Joseph Vernet, who encouraged his interest in landscape. Like Vernet, Wilson was deeply influenced by the work of Claude and Gaspard Dughet, and he interpreted the English and Welsh landscapes in their manner after his return to England. Wilson is sometimes called 'The English Claude'.
Wilson was born in Wales, moving in about 1729 to London, where he trained with Thomas Wright as a portrait painter. A number of topographical views by Wilson of the 1740s are known, but it was not until working in Italy that Wilson turned seriously to landscape. He visited Venice in 1750/1 and then moved to Rome. After his return to England in 1756/7 he continued to paint views of Italy as well as views of England. He exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1760 and was a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768, though he died in poverty and relative obscurity.
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Richard Wilson (sculptor)
British sculptor, artist and musician
Richard WilsonRA (born 24 May 1953) is an English sculptor, installation artist and musician.
Biography
Born in Islington, London, Wilson studied at the London College of Printing, Hornsey College of Art and Reading University. He was the DAAD resident in Berlin in 1992, Maeda Visiting Artist at the Architectural Association in 1998 and nominated for the Turner Prize in both 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won).
Wilson's first solo show was 11 Pieces, at the Coracle Press Gallery in London in 1976. Since then he has had at least 50 solo exhibitions around the world.
He formed the Bow Gamelan Ensemble in 1983 with Anne Bean and Paul Burwell.
Wilson's work is characterised by architectural concerns with volume, illusionary spaces and auditory perception. His most famous work 20:50, a room of specific proportions, part-filled with highly reflective used sump oil creating an illusion of the room turned upside down was first exhibited at Matt's Gallery, London in 1987, beca
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