Lot Essay
Sir John Evelyn (1620-1706), a prominent author, is best known for the diary which he kept through the whole of his life, recording events and ideas in England from the Civil War to the reign of Queen Anne in the next century.
By tradition, the present lot comes from Wottan House, Surrey, the seat of the Evelyn family and was thought to be the work of the painter Chanterell, who is known only from a mention in Evelyn's diary under the year 1626: "My picture was drawn in oil by one Chanterell, no ill painter" (Henry Colburn, London, 1854, I, p. 5).
John Evelyn Diary, now in the Collection of Wotton Library, run from 1641-1705.
By tradition, the present lot comes from Wottan House, Surrey, the seat of the Evelyn family and was thought to be the work of the painter Chanterell, who is known only from a mention in Evelyn's diary under the year 1626: "My picture was drawn in oil by one Chanterell, no ill painter" (Henry Colburn, London, 1854, I, p. 5).
John Evelyn Diary, now in the Collection of Wotton Library, run from 1641-1705.