The White Monk

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Richard Wilson, R.A. (1713-1782)
The White Monk
oil on canvas
25 x 31¼ in. (63.5 x 79.4 cm.)
in an 18th Century carved and gilded frame with flowers and shells at the centres and corners

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Lot Essay

The White Monk was one of Wilson's most popular and successful compositions. Examples are in the Toledo Museum of Art and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. (see W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, no. 223a, pp. 227-30, and D.H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, The Landscape of Reaction, London, Tate Gallery, 1982, nos. 103 and 104).

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