View of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire

Details

English School, CIRCA 1730
View of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire
oil on canvas
37¼ x 49¾ in. (94.6 x 126.3 cm.)

Provenance

William Bromley-Davenport of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire, 1884 and by descent to Lt. Col. Walter Bromley-Davenport, M.P.
Christie's, 20 May 1955, (as Wouter Knyff, View of a country mansion), (15 gns. to Smith).
Offered anonymously, Christie's, London, 8 June 1995, lot 42.

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Sale room notice

Please note additional literature for this lot:
John Harris, 'The Artist and the Country House', 1979, no. 141, page 135

Lot Essay

Baginton Hall was the seat of William Bromley, Speaker of the House of Commons. The old house was destroyed by fire in 1710 although part of the outbuildings, visible in the present picture, survived. The new house, built to the designs of Francis Smith of Warwick was itself destroyed by fire in 1889.

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