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Alcyone discovers the dead body of her husband Ceyx and attempts to throw herself off a cliff into the sea Wall Art
ART BY: Richard Wilson
Alcyone discovers the dead body of her husband Ceyx and attempts to throw herself off a cliff into the sea Wall Art
ART BY: Richard Wilson
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Alcyone discovers the dead body of her husband Ceyx and attempts to throw herself off a cliff into the sea is an engravings, etchings by Richard Wilson (1713–1782), dated 31 July 1769. The artist is catalogued as Italian. The original is held by the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 4890 px (7.1 MB). You will find it among Prints and Rococo, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 85 works by Richard Wilson, a British artist.
Richard Wilson was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape art and worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country".
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Richard Wilson →
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