- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Killerton
- Date
- 1786
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 300mm,
- image length 390mm
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “A View, taken at Killerton Devonshire / the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland. Bart / by / Francis Towne. 1786.”
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT449a
- Description Sources
- Auction records (image)
Provenance
Sold at Hampton & Littlewood of Exeter on 20 July 2005, lot 368, for £3,700 to the National Trust, the current owner. A note on the National Trust collections website (accessed 22 Dec 2011) states “note from Hugh Meller – The auctioneer tells me that the painting was owned by Mrs. Betty Bagwell, organist of Killerton Chapel or perhaps Broadclyst Parish Church, in the 1920s. She was given the watercolour by ? . . .” Given its subject, date, and ownership early in the twentieth century by someone associated with Acland estates, it seems safe to assume this was commissioned by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland or his wife.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Killerton House, Broadclyst, Exeter, 20 July 2005, GBP 3700, NT 921950
- Hampton & Littlewood, Exeter, 20 July 2005
lot 368 - Mrs Betty Bagwell
Noted as being in the collection of Mrs Betty Bagwell, organist of Killerton Chapel or perhaps Broadclyst Parish Church, in the 1920s. - Lady Henrietta Anne Acland (née Hoare) (1765 - 1841), Broadclyst, Exeter
- [?] Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1752 - 1794), Broadclyst, Exeter, 1786
Other entries in Studio Watercolours, 1783–1800
Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church
The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
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Comment
This watercolour is based on a sketch dated 21 October 1785 (FT440). It is the earliest recorded watercolour commission that Towne received from the Aclands; that many further commissions followed suggests that its owners considered it a success.