A View on the Downs near Uppark
Pieter Tillemans (Antwerp 1684 – Suffolk 1734)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1727 x 2159 mm (68 x 85 in)
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Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138255
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A View over the Downs near Uppark, by Pieter Tillemans (Antwerp 1684 – Suffolk 1734). South Harting can be seen in the valley. Harting Place, the ancient seat of the owners of the Harting estate, still stands next to the church. The huntsmen wear the blue and silver livery of the local Charlton hunt.
Provenance
Probably painted in 1720s (with 138254) for Charles, 2nd Earl of Tankerville (1697 – 1753) of the second creation, who sold Uppark in 1747; accepted in lieu of tax on the death of Admiral the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh (1875-1964) in 1965 and transferred to the National Trust by HM Treasury in September 1985.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Pieter Tillemans (Antwerp 1684 – Suffolk 1734), artist
References
Raines 1980 R. Raines, 'Tillemans... list of representative paintings', Walpole Society 1980, XLVII , p. 51, No 40