Portrait of Richard Wilson

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 - 1779)

National Museum Cardiff

1752

Half length portrait seated before an easel, the sitter is wearing a brocaded dressing-gown and a turban, holding a palette and brushes in his left hand and a brush in his right hand. Executed in Rome when Wilson was working there from 1749-1755.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 84 x 74 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £105 ( Total: £105)
• ArtFunded in: 1947
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

Mengs painted the protrait as a tribute to Wilson and in return for one of his landscapes. Wilson parted with the portrait to his kinsman Sir Watkin Williams Wynn.

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