Charles Bridgeman (1690 - 1738)
Sir James Thornhill (Woolland 1675 - Stalbridge 1734)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1721 - 1724
Materials
Pencil on paper
Measurements
196 x 183 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206356
Summary
Pencil drawing on paper, Charles Bridgeman (1690 - 1738) by Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734), circa 1721-4. Inscribed "old master Charles Bridgeman, by Sir James Thornhill." A half-length portrait of the garden designer, seated in profile to left. His father was a gardener who worked at Wimpole in Cambridge for the Earl of Oxford.
Provenance
Bought at Christie's British Art on Paper, 5th June 2003
Makers and roles
Sir James Thornhill (Woolland 1675 - Stalbridge 1734), artist