Live Auction 8013From Milan to Rome - The Collections of Two Italian Designers
R.F. Rickards (British, active 1806-1827)
Lot 306

R.F. Rickards (British, active 1806-1827)

A view of Tivoli with the Temple of Vesta and the Temple of the Sibyl

Closed16 November 2011

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GBP 8,750

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R.F. Rickards (British, active 1806-1827)
A view of Tivoli with the Temple of Vesta and the Temple of the Sibyl
indistinctly signed and dated 'R F Rickards 1806' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36½ x 52 in. (92.8 x 132 cm.)

(Possibly) commissioned by William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748-1811), or one of his wives, and by descent to
The Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 July 1987, lot 155A, as 'The White Monk, R.F. Rickards after Richard Wilson, R.A.

Specialist note

Catalogued in 1987 as being after Richard Wilson's celebrated White Monk, this picture is actually inspired by that work and other Wilson compositions (perhaps closest to his Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), without being a direct copy after any of them.