Richard Wilson

(1713-1782)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wilson, Richard, 1713-1782 DNB: Wilson, Richard (1712/13-1782), landscape painter LBT ID: RiWilso1782 VIAF ID: 88982022 LOC ID: n83239097	B/BAP: 1713-08-01 DIED: 1782-05-11
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The leading British landscape painter of his generation; he was a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768.
REFERENCES TO Richard Wilson: Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 15 March 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Italy: 1818 Found 1: ¶ 16 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Mr. Tompkisson Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 59 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. XVII 1826-28 Found 1: ¶ 33 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806