Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle

R. Wilson, Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn CastleRichard Wilson, Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle, Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales, Cardiff © National Museum of Wales

Llyn Peris with Dolbadarn Castle, 2013Photograph of Llyn Peris with Dolbadarn Castle, 2013

ca. 1762

Richard Wilson

1714–1782

Oil on canvas

36 ½ x 49 ¾ inches (91.8 x 125.7 cm)

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.

Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales, Cardiff

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R. Wilson, Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle Richard Wilson, Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle, Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales, Cardiff © National Museum of Wales

Llyn Peris with Dolbadarn Castle, 2013 Photograph of Llyn Peris with Dolbadarn Castle, 2013