Richard WILSON
Welsh 1713/14-1782
Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle
c. 1760-63
oil on canvas
96.0 x 131.0 cm
Felton Bequest 1949
2055-4

A Welsh landscape has here been transformed into an Italianate composition in the manner of Claude Lorrain or Gaspard Poussin. It was painted only a few years after Wilson had returned from Italy and this is possibly his first painting of Wales. Dolbadarn castle is an ancient fortress at the entrance to Snowdonia.