Carved limewood panel with doves feeding and oaksprays
attributed to Grinling Gibbons (Rotterdam 1648 - London 1721)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1688
Materials
Limewood
Measurements
410 x 1020 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435033.3
Summary
Limewood, carved applique panel attributed to Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), c.1688. A carved limewood panel showing doves feeding, with oak sprays, swags of phlox and arrowhead vine.
Full description
The panel have been brought from the mansion of Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754) at Arlington Street, London, where, according to the 1738 Inventory, there hung in a passage ‘A fine piece of carving in a panel by Gibbons’. Doves feeding appear in arguably Gibbons’ finest work: The Cosimo Panel of 1681-2, sent by Charles II as a gift to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (now in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence). Symbolising peace and love, two doves also appear in an overdoor panel in the First George Room at Burghley House. Alice Rylance-Watson October 2018
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)
Makers and roles
attributed to Grinling Gibbons (Rotterdam 1648 - London 1721), woodcarver