Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt., F.R.S. (Barn Elms 1758-1838 Stourhead)

The north front of Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, North Wales

Details

Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt., F.R.S. (Barn Elms 1758-1838 Stourhead)
The north front of Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, North Wales
signed, inscribed and dated 'North Front of Pembroke Castle - 26 June 1793. RC Hoare fect.' (in the margin lower centre)
pencil, pen and brown ink and brown and blue wash, within a wash-line border, watermark Strasburg Lily
13 ¾ x 20 ½ in. (34.9 x 52.1 cm.)

Provenance

John Campbell, Viscount Emlyn, 1st Earl Cawdor.
with The Sabin Gallery, London, by 1963 where purchased by
Walter Brandt, and by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

Colt Hoare, a member of the Hoare's banking dynasty, was the fourth owner of Stourhead, Wiltshire, inheriting from his grandfather Henry Hoare II (1705-1785) in 1785. After the death of his young wife, he made several continental tours, and became a dedicated antiquarian and archaeologist, undertaking the first excavations at Stonehenge in 1798.

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