ful landscape paintings. Although long overshadowed by
more famous British depicters of hill and dale— notably
John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, and even the short-
lived Richard Parkes Bonnington and Thomas Gainsbor-
ough (yes, Gainsborough did fetching landscapes as well
as magnificent portraits)— Wilson has been called "the
father of British landscape painting," by many authorita-
tive voices, including Robin Simon, editor of The British
Art Journal.
Writing in the catalogue published in connection with
the exhibition "Richard Wilson and the Transformation of
European Landscape Painting," Simon proclaims that in
Richard Wilson, Dinas Bran from Llangollen, 1770–71, oil on canvas,
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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