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This settee forms part of a suite that was sold in the Wentworth sale in 1948. Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Lord Malton and later 1st Marquess of Rockingham, was responsible for the creation of, arguably, the grandest of English Palladian houses. A friend of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (d.1753), he supervised every stage of the building of Wentworth Woodhouse himself, at first seeking the advice of local architects and subsequently employing Burlington's protégé Henry Flitcroft (d.1769).
At the time of Rockingham's death in 1750, the main structure of the house seems to have been finished although work on the interiors continued well into the 1760s. The suite is now attributed to the Wakefield firm of Richard Wright and Edward Elwick who supplied large quantities of furniture to Wentworth Woodhouse in the 1750s and 1760s. The extensive use of solid mahogany features in many of the works by this firm. And, like much of their furniture, the design derives from patterns in Thomas Chippendale's Director. For a full discussion of Wright and Elwick at Wentworth, see Christie's Wentworth sale catalogue, 8 July 1998 (introduction to lot 33 by Edward Lennox-Boyd).
The 1948 Wentworth sale featured three armchairs of this model (lot 63). These likely included the pair exhibited by Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair that year. A suite of exactly the same model was first recorded at Hackwood Park, Hampshire in 1905 and possibly originally commissioned for the 5th Duke of Bolton's London house or more likely Bolton Hall, the family seat in Yorkshire. Three side chairs sold Christie's Hackwood Park House sale, 20-22 April 1998, lots 119-120. In 1905, the Bolton family had recently been in residence at Hackwood following a fire at Bolton Hall. A move of some furniture seems likely.
The settee also conforms to another suite with gilt enrichments at Powis Castle in Wales (M. Hall, 'Powis Castle', Country Life, 21 October 1993, p. 81, figs. 5 & 6). Two undocumented settees of this pattern were sold Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lots 392-393.
At the time of Rockingham's death in 1750, the main structure of the house seems to have been finished although work on the interiors continued well into the 1760s. The suite is now attributed to the Wakefield firm of Richard Wright and Edward Elwick who supplied large quantities of furniture to Wentworth Woodhouse in the 1750s and 1760s. The extensive use of solid mahogany features in many of the works by this firm. And, like much of their furniture, the design derives from patterns in Thomas Chippendale's Director. For a full discussion of Wright and Elwick at Wentworth, see Christie's Wentworth sale catalogue, 8 July 1998 (introduction to lot 33 by Edward Lennox-Boyd).
The 1948 Wentworth sale featured three armchairs of this model (lot 63). These likely included the pair exhibited by Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair that year. A suite of exactly the same model was first recorded at Hackwood Park, Hampshire in 1905 and possibly originally commissioned for the 5th Duke of Bolton's London house or more likely Bolton Hall, the family seat in Yorkshire. Three side chairs sold Christie's Hackwood Park House sale, 20-22 April 1998, lots 119-120. In 1905, the Bolton family had recently been in residence at Hackwood following a fire at Bolton Hall. A move of some furniture seems likely.
The settee also conforms to another suite with gilt enrichments at Powis Castle in Wales (M. Hall, 'Powis Castle', Country Life, 21 October 1993, p. 81, figs. 5 & 6). Two undocumented settees of this pattern were sold Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lots 392-393.