View of Whiteway House
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1771 (house in view built)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1016 mm (39 x 50 in)
Place of origin
Chudleigh
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872251
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Whiteway House by William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), circa 1771. Whiteway, near Chudleigh, was built by John Parker, later 1st Lord Boringdon, and completed about 1771. It was probably bought by, or may have been settled on, his younger brother Montagu Edmund Parker, whose descendants continued in possession until this century. In the meantime the two branches of the family had become reunited by the marriage of Edmund Parker, 2nd Earl of Morley, with his second cousin Harriet Coryton, who was born a Parker of Whiteway. In the early 1920's Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley sold Whiteway to the Farquhar family, who still live there.
Provenance
Commissioned by John Parker (1743/5 – 1788), Lord Boringdon and thence by descent;accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), artist
References
Gore 1966: F. St John Gore, 'A Patron of Portrait and Landscape - the Picture Collection at Saltram House, Devon', Country Life, 2 June 1966, p.1388, p. 1388