Welch Wilkes (fl.1730), the Chirk Castle Scullion
British (Welsh) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1730 (inscribed) - circa 1785
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
628 x 497 x 25 mm
Order this imageCollection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171168
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Welch Wilkes (fl.1730), Chirk Castle Scullion, Welsh School, inscribed: 'Welch Wilkes, Chirk Castle Scullion, 1730'. A servant is bent down ringing the clock bell in the castle courtyard, at half-past three. The painting shows the seventeenth century balustrade around the roof.
Provenance
Presumably commissioned by Robert Myddelton (1678 - 1733); recorded in the 1814 inventory as 'Additional in the Glass Pantry' and thence by descent; with some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales (In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust); accepted by the Inland Revenue in lieu of Inheritance Tax from the estate of Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) and transferred to the National Trust for display to the public at Chirk Castle in 1999.
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Welch Wilkes, Chirk Castle Scullion, 1730
Makers and roles
British (Welsh) School, artist British (English) School, artist
References
Lord 2000 Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation, Cardiff University of Wales Press, 2000, p. 175, fig. 271