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| Artist | Richard Wilson |
| Year | c.1770 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 42.5 cm × 52.7 cm (16.7 in × 20.7 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
On Hounslow Heath is a 1770 landscape painting by the Welsh artist Richard Wilson. It depicts a view of Hounslow Heath, then located some miles to the west of London. The uncultivated landscape of the heath attracted Wilson, who returned to it as a subject several times in his work. His depiction of it is naturalistic, something of a new style for him. It emphasises the largely empty landscape, broken only by the River Crane flooding its banks in the foreground and a windmill in the distance.
It was commissioned by the bookseller Thomas Davies. It is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been acquired in 1929.
References
- Bury p.67
- Fussell p.22
- Waites p.56
- Waites p.57
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-on-hounslow-heath-n04458
Bibliography
- Bury, Adrian. Richard Wilson, R.A.: The Grand Classic. F. Lewis, 1947.
- Fussell, George Edwin . Landscape Painting and the Agricultural Revolution. Pindar Press, 1984.
- Solkin, David H. Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction. Tate Gallery, 1982.
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