The Property of
MEMBERS OF THE BEAUMONT FAMILY
A CARVED LIMEWOOD PICTURE-SURROUND attributed to William Rogers, the top profusely carved with bold acanthus scrolls with birds and fir-cones centred by a stag's head, the left-hand side with wheat, fruit, flowers, a teal, a duck, lobsters and fish, the right-hand side with wheatsheaves, fruit, a brace of partridge, woodcock, a bittern, a deer, a lobster, fish and shells, mid-19th Century, now mounted on white board, restorations, some parts deficient, reassembled
Details
A CARVED LIMEWOOD PICTURE-SURROUND attributed to William Rogers, the top profusely carved with bold acanthus scrolls with birds and fir-cones centred by a stag's head, the left-hand side with wheat, fruit, flowers, a teal, a duck, lobsters and fish, the right-hand side with wheatsheaves, fruit, a brace of partridge, woodcock, a bittern, a deer, a lobster, fish and shells, mid-19th Century, now mounted on white board, restorations, some parts deficient, reassembled
the top: 84in. (213.5cm.) wide; the right 87in. (221 cm) high; the left 85in. (216.5cm.) high
the top: 84in. (213.5cm.) wide; the right 87in. (221 cm) high; the left 85in. (216.5cm.) high
Provenance
Bretton Park, Yorkshire.
Bretton Park, a Palladian mansion, was built in 1730 for Sir William Wentworth, Bt., by Colonel James Moyser. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries distinguished architects added to and altered the house: John Carr 1793, William Atkinson 1807, Sir Jeffry Wyattville 1815, George Basevi 1842 (see: H. Colvin, British Architects 1660-1840, London, 1978, pp.565, 196, 76, 962, 95)
This picture surround is part of a group of carvings known as the Bretton Park Carvings. The other three have been sold in these Rooms on 11 April 1991, lots 107 and 108, and 5 July 1990, lot 29. In the two 1938 Country Life articles on Bretton Park by A. Oswald (LXXXIII, 1938, pp.530-535 and 554-559), the carvings are illustrated in Lord Allendale's Study.
It is most likely that the Bretton Carvings were all supplied by William Rogers in the early 1850's soon after the death of Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (died 1848). William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875), the distinguished woodcarver and restorer earned fame emulating the renowned carving of Grinling Gibbons (d.1721). Rogers had been employed at Sudbury in 1838, under the direction of the dealer E.H. Baldock, and retained fragments of the carving in his Hanway Street studio. (We are grateful to Andrew Barber for this information.) In Christie's catalogue, 17 June 1858, of Mr Rogers' collection of his own carvings and the work of others such as Gibbons, it was stated that he could 'equal, if not surpass his great forerunner, Gibbons'. He exhibited at the 1851 Exhibition and other exhibitions and was patronised by Queen Victoria, who granted him a Civil List pension for his contribution in reviving the standard of ornamental wood-carving. A pair of swags by Rogers is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. II, no. 381.
It is likely that Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale, employed Rogers to execute the carvings as an appropriate frame for his ancestral portraits following his marriage to Lady Margaret Anne Burgh, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, 1856. Bretton Park was sold by the 2nd Viscount Allendale in 1948 at which time the carvings were removed
Bretton Park, a Palladian mansion, was built in 1730 for Sir William Wentworth, Bt., by Colonel James Moyser. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries distinguished architects added to and altered the house: John Carr 1793, William Atkinson 1807, Sir Jeffry Wyattville 1815, George Basevi 1842 (see: H. Colvin, British Architects 1660-1840, London, 1978, pp.565, 196, 76, 962, 95)
This picture surround is part of a group of carvings known as the Bretton Park Carvings. The other three have been sold in these Rooms on 11 April 1991, lots 107 and 108, and 5 July 1990, lot 29. In the two 1938 Country Life articles on Bretton Park by A. Oswald (LXXXIII, 1938, pp.530-535 and 554-559), the carvings are illustrated in Lord Allendale's Study.
It is most likely that the Bretton Carvings were all supplied by William Rogers in the early 1850's soon after the death of Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (died 1848). William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875), the distinguished woodcarver and restorer earned fame emulating the renowned carving of Grinling Gibbons (d.1721). Rogers had been employed at Sudbury in 1838, under the direction of the dealer E.H. Baldock, and retained fragments of the carving in his Hanway Street studio. (We are grateful to Andrew Barber for this information.) In Christie's catalogue, 17 June 1858, of Mr Rogers' collection of his own carvings and the work of others such as Gibbons, it was stated that he could 'equal, if not surpass his great forerunner, Gibbons'. He exhibited at the 1851 Exhibition and other exhibitions and was patronised by Queen Victoria, who granted him a Civil List pension for his contribution in reviving the standard of ornamental wood-carving. A pair of swags by Rogers is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. II, no. 381.
It is likely that Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale, employed Rogers to execute the carvings as an appropriate frame for his ancestral portraits following his marriage to Lady Margaret Anne Burgh, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, 1856. Bretton Park was sold by the 2nd Viscount Allendale in 1948 at which time the carvings were removed