Drovers and cattle in an extensive landscape

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CIRCLE OF GEORGE LAMBERT (BRITISH, 1700-1765)
Drovers and cattle in an extensive landscape
oil on canvas
35 x 48½ in. (89 x 123 cm.)
In an English 18th century carved and pierced frame, previously gilded and with some later embellishments

Literature

Inventory and Valuation of the contents of Newton Hall, Felton, Morpeth, Northumberland, The Property of Brigadier General B. F. Widdrington, C.M.G., D.S.O., 1925, p. 121.

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Lot Essay

The flower festooned frame has its Arcadian reed-gadrooned border crowned by the nature deity's fretted shell; while the 'picturesque' border fuses the Elements with its reed pilasters issuing waved, water-bubbled and acanthus-wrapped trusses. With its deity mask, intended to recall the Spring goddess Flora, it relates to a frame pattern issued by the carvers Matthias Lock and Henry Copland in 'A New Book of Ornament, 1752, and reissued by Sayer in 1762 (see E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Designs, Woodbridge, 1990, p.327).

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