painted Portrait of Manuel de Alday, bishop of Santiago de Chile in 1772  Related Paintings of Jose Legarda :. | Two shepherden | Marquesa de la Solana | Pang plans Schwarz | Interior of the Sistine Chapel | Christ Nailed to the Cross |
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Johann Christian Klengel
Johann Christian Klengel (1751-1824), painter.
WILSON, Richard
Welsh Romantic Painter, ca.1713-1782 British landscape painter, b. Wales. He studied in London and achieved success as a portrait painter, but after a visit to Italy (c.1750?C1756) he devoted himself to landscape in the classical tradition of Claude Lorrain. The exhibition of Wilson's Niobe in 1760 won him acclaim, and he was made a member and later librarian of the Royal Academy. His work did not become generally popular until after his death. Although his Italian landscapes did not depart from the classical tradition of picturesque Roman ruins and recumbent nymphs, his work shows considerable originality and breadth of treatment, especially in his many fine paintings of English country houses. He exerted a strong influence on subsequent landscape painting in England. On Hounslow Heath (National Gall., London) and Afternoon and Lake Nemi
Lefebvre, Jules Joseph
French, 1834-1912