A view of Combwell Priory, Kent, with the owner greeting a visitor in the foreground, the visitor's horse is being held by a black groom

Details

English School, circa 1680
A view of Combwell Priory, Kent, with the owner greeting a visitor in the foreground, the visitor's horse is being held by a black groom
oil on canvas
24¾ x 29. 7/8 in. (62.9 x 75.9 cm.)

Provenance

Colonel M.H. Grant.

Literature

M.H. Grant, A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters (In Oil) From the XVIth Century to the XIXth Century, Leigh-On-Sea, 1957, I, pp. 56-57, as by Jan Siberechts.
J. Harris, The Artist and the Country House, London, 1979, p. 59, no. 50.

Exhibited

London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Grant Collection, no. 56, as by Siberechts.

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Lot Essay

The present work is thought to show Combwell Priory. Combwell was two miles from Goudhurst and, after its surrender following the Dissolution, was granted to Thomas Culpeper, later passing to William Campion. The priory remained in the ownership of the Campion family until circa 1657, when the family moved to Sussex. The priory was finally demolished in the 18th century.

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