A Morning Landscape with a Triumphal Arch
William Ashford (Birmingham 1746 - Dublin 1824)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1777 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1092 x 1492 mm (43 x 58.75 in)
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207791
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Morning Landscape with a Triumphal Arch by William Ashford (Birmingham 1746 - Dublin 1824), signed and date, bottom left: W. Ashford 1777. Ashford had a job in the Ordnance Office in Dublin from 1764 until 1788, but from 1772 onwards practised increasingly as a landscape painter, both in the idealising Claudian mode, as here, and in a more factual, topographical vein.
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 19th November 1965, lot 141: bought Kelso (probably on behalf of Mrs Bambridge); bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
W. Ashford 1777
Makers and roles
William Ashford (Birmingham 1746 - Dublin 1824)