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Thomas Wilkinson

Matthew Ellis Nutter

Art Funded
2001
Dimensions
29 x 23 cm
Vendor
Private collector
A portrait of Thomas Wilkinson (1751-1836) sitting holding a book upright on his lap with one hand.

Wilkinson was a Quaker and minor poet and writer who was well connected with Burke, Clarkson, Wordsworth and Coleridge. He is best known for inspiring lines in Wordsworth poem 'The Solitary Reaper'.

Provenance

Mary Carr, Thomas Wilkinson's great-niece and biographer.

Oil on canvas

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Art we’ve helped buy at Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum

Ullswater, Cumberland
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Ullswater
 Acquired 1992
Thomas Wilkinson
 Acquired 2001
The West Aspect of Furness Abbey, Cumberland
 Acquired 2003
The Upper End of Coniston Lake, Lancashire
 Acquired 1991
The Fish Inn Buttermere
 Acquired 1988
Study of William Wordsworth
 Acquired 1993
Sketchbook
 Acquired 1999
Seven views of the Lake District
 Acquired 2003
Robert Southey with his Daughter and Son
 Acquired 1990
Profile of Wordsworth
 Acquired 2005
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Acquired 2006
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Acquired 2005
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Acquired 2001
Portrait of Robert Southey
 Acquired 1994
Portrait of Priscilla Lloyd
 Acquired 1992
Peele Castle in a Storm
 Acquired 1993
Northern Scenery in a series of drawings
 Acquired 1985
Near Ambleside
 Acquired 1992
Medallion of Robert Southey
 Acquired 1993
Mary of Buttermere
 Acquired 1993
Lake Windermere from Orrest Head
 Acquired 2000
Illustrations from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Acquired 2007
Helm Crag
 Acquired 1977
Grasmere
 Acquired 1985
Environs of Keswick
 Acquired 1987
De Quincey Family Portraits
 Acquired 2005
Daulby album
 Acquired 1999
Collection of four portrait drawings
 Acquired 1996
Collection of 23 drawings
 Acquired 1992
Captain Gilpin drawings
 Acquired 1992
Borrowdale
 Acquired 1987
Album of thirty photographs
 Acquired 1993
A View of Elterwater
 Acquired 1983
A Valley in the Lake District
 Acquired 2002
61 views of the Lake District
 Acquired 2004
1) Loweswater; 2) Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park; 3) View to the South from Birkrigg, Furness, Lancashire
 Acquired 2006

JMW Turner's watercolour Ullswater, Cumberland was based on sketches made during his visits to the Lake District. As with many of Turner's landscapes, objective accuracy was sacrificed in favour of an aesthetically pleasing arrangement, rearranging the topography and bathing the landscape in a light more typical of Italy than Cumbria. The painting was a favourite of art critic and thinker John Ruskin.

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