Caernarvon Castle, between 1744 and 1745

  • Richard Wilson, Welsh, ca. 1713-1782

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 32 1/2 × 45 inches (82.6 × 114.3 cm)
  • 40 × 52 3/4 × 2 5/8 inches (101.6 × 134 × 6.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Acquisition Fund, Edna Burian Skelton Fund, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, Abraham Borman Family Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund, and funds from Stanley R. and Lynn W. Day, Mr. Richard A. Manoogian, Marvin and Betty Danto, Marianne Schwartz, European Paintings Council, Margaret H. Demant, Ruth F. Rattner, and other contributors

1998.1

On View

  • British, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Sir Charles Tennant, Baronet [d. 1906] (The Glen, Peebleshire, Scotland)

1943-1997, by descent to his daughter, the Honorable Mrs. Walter Elliot [created Baroness Elliot of Harwood in 1958] (Hawick, Scotland)

by 1998, (David Carritt Ltd. [Artemis], London, England)

1998-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Richard Wilson, Caernarvon Castle, between 1744 and 1745, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, et al., 1998.1.