Capriccio of Classical Ruins
Henry Ferguson (c.1655 - Toulouse 1730)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1673 - 1677
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
810 x 1160 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140280
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Capriccio of Classical Ruins by Henry Ferguson, alias Henry Vergazoon (b. in the United Provinces by 1655 – Toulouse 1730), previously William Gouw Ferguson (Scotland c.1633 - London c.1695). A group of Classical objects including urns and velute surrounding a sarcophagus, with a frieze.
Provenance
Painted for John, Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (Croft-Murray); in 1677 Inventory; and thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Makers and roles
Henry Ferguson (c.1655 - Toulouse 1730), artist William Gouw Ferguson (c.1633 - c.1695), artist
References
Eidelberg 2000 Martin Eidelberg, '""Landskips...dark and gloomy": Reintrododucing Henry Ferguson, Apollo, September 2000, pp. 27-36 Rowell 2013: Christopher Rowell (ed.), Ham House, 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2013, p, 127