Lady Hilborough's Garden, Overstrand Hall, Norfolk

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Beatrice Parsons (1870-1955)
Lady Hilborough's Garden, Overstrand Hall, Norfolk
signed 'Beatrice Parsons' (lower right) and with inscription and dated '1924/.../Lady Hilborough's Garden/Overstrad [sic] Hall' (on the reverse of the frame)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour
8 5/8 x 11¼ in. (22 x 28.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Overstrand was known as the Village of Millionaires in the early part of the 20th Century and was a favourite haunt of many rich and famous who built elaborate second homes here. Overstrand Hall was designed for Lord and Lady Hillingdon.

Beatrice Parsons also painted the gardens of The Pleasaunce in Overstrand, built for Lord and Lady Battersea with the grounds designed by Gertrude Jekyll see C. Wood & P. Hobhouse, Painted Gardens, English Watercolours 1859-1914, London, 1988, illustrated, no. 110.

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