RICHARD WILSON, R.A. (Penegoes 1713-1782 Colommendy)
PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM AND BERNADETTE BERGER (LOTS 63-67)
RICHARD WILSON, R.A. (Penegoes 1713-1782 Colommendy)

The White Monk

Details
RICHARD WILSON, R.A. (Penegoes 1713-1782 Colommendy)
The White Monk
oil on canvas
20½ x 27½ in. (52 x 70 cm.)
Provenance
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803) and thence by descent until sold, Christie's, London, 18 October 1946, lot 175 (350 gns. to Drown).
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1997, lot 54 (£25,000=$45,000).
Literature
W.Y. Ottley, Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures, London, 1818, IV, no. 5, Class VI, illustrated.
W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, pp. 89 and 223.
D.H. Solkin, Wilson, London, 1983, pp. 66-70.
Exhibited
Denver Art Museum, 600 Years of British Painting, The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum, 1998-99, p. 227, illustrated.

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