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circle of John Wootton, Pastoral Figures among Ruins
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Trewithen
- Title(s)
- Pastoral Figures among Ruins
- Date
- c.1735
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 60 cm, Overall width: 13.5 cm
- Artist
- circle of John Wootton (1682-1764)
- Catalogue Number
- TN5
Footnotes
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CRO J/1/1691.
1
Description
An overmantel framed in a contemporary George II giltwood frame. The painting and overmantel are described in an inventory of Trewithen taken in 1768 as ‘in the Drawing Room: ‘A Chimney Looking Glass in a Gilt frame middle plate 34½ by 18 in; the 2 ends Do 18 by 9 in, with a Landskip – £3 – 13 – 6.’1
It seems likely that the overmantel dates from Philip Hawkins II’s building phase of the house. The painting itself seems likely to be by a British decorative artist imitating Dutch seventeenth-century models. It may be by the same hand as the overmantel in the Drawing Room (TN14).
In the inventory of June 1829 it is listed in the Drawing Room as ‘1 Picture. Landscape over & enclosed in a Frame with pier glass on the Mantelpiece’, and valued at £5.