Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle

Dolbadarn Castle, built in the thirteenth century by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great, overlooks the waters of Llyn Padarn and Llyn Peris and commanded the route from Caernarfon to the upper Conwy valley. Here, Wilson quite deliberately set the ruined fortress in an Italianate landscape. An underlying portrait, revealed by X-ray analysis, indicates that Wilson reused a canvas, possibly from an earlier discarded commission.