A bay hunter and three pointers in a landscape with Lyston Hall beyond

Details

Charles Towne (1763-1840)
A bay hunter and three pointers in a landscape with Lyston Hall beyond
signed with initials and dated 'CTPinxit. 1809' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40½ x 55½ in. (103 x 141 cm.)

Provenance

Commissioned by the Campbell-Lambert family of Lyston Hall, and by descent until sold at
Christie's, London, 18 November 1988, lot 24 (£55,000).
with Richard Green, London, 1989 (from whom purchased by the present owner).

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Lot Essay

The Lyston Hall estate, three miles from Sudbury on the Essex Suffolk borders, was purchased by William Campbell, fourth son of the Hon. John Campbell of Mamore, in 1737. He built an unusual new house, with seven bays crowned by a pediment, connected by blank arches to two-storeyed pavilions, on rather similar lines to Davenport House in Shropshire. The 'New and Complete History of Essex', 1770, describes it as an 'elegant modern house... the beauty of its situation is to be excelled by that of few houses in the county'. The hall suffered from a major fire in the early 20th century, but was restored. It was finally demolished in 1951.
John Campbell was the second son of William and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the 8th Lord Elphinstone. He was Master in Chancery and Member of Parliament for the Ayr Burghs in 1794 and 1796-1806.

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