Painted panel
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1608 - 1723
Materials
Painted panel on canvas
Collection
Knole, Kent
NT 130952.3.9
Summary
Painted canvas flower and fruit paintings forming part of a decorative scheme in the Cartoon Gallery. South window bay, upper frieze, second right (nearest window).
Full description
Panel on canvas. Silver baluster on wide, flat base, with fine stem and wide shallow bowl. Containing flowers and foliage: red roses, sprays of white flowers, pink tulips, narcissi. Set on a dark background. Painted canvas flower painting forming part of an upper frieze in the Cartoon Gallery. Panels are located on the south wall, in the south wall window bay and the west wall.
Provenance
The flower and fruit paintings on canvas came into the Cartoon Gallery at a later date than the grotesque scheme. Bridgeman's Sketch of Knole, published in 1817, mentions that the Brown Gallery set of paintings once sat in the Cartoon Gallery and were removed when the Cartoons were brought to Knole in 1701. By 1723 the flower paintings formed part of the Cartoon Gallery scheme.