Portrait of Richard Wilson
Anton Raphael Mengs
- Art Funded
- 1947
- Dimensions
- 84 x 74 cm
- Vendor
- Sotheby's
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.
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.