A Garden Scene at an Anglo-Portuguese Quinta (Bemfica), Lisbon
attributed to Alexandre-Jean Nöel (Brie-Comte-Robert 1752 – Paris 1834)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1780 - 1789
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
552 x 772 mm (21 3/4 x 30 3/8 in)
Place of origin
Lisbon
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446805
Caption
This appears to be a view of an Anglo-Portuguese ‘quinta’ (country villa and estate), judging by the English sash windows inserted into the Portuguese buildings. The shape of the tiled roofs are notably Portuguese in style. The picture has known various attributions, from Bellotto to Hogarth, to Pillement. The attribution to Noël is convincing on the strength of his two panoramic views of the ‘quinta’ belonging to the Anglo-Huguenot merchant, Gerard de Visme, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Garden Scene at an Anglo-Portuguese Quinta (Bemfica), Lisbon, attributed to Alexandre-Jean Nöel (1752-1834), circa 1780-1789. A lady and gentleman stand conversing by a stone pedestal surmounted by an urn, left, on a grass path which leads between flower beds lined with orange trees to a fence at the end of the garden; beyond it on the right is a villa with a detached garden; at the end of the grass path steps lead up to a small pavilion among trees.
Provenance
H.G. Bohn (1796-1884) sale, Christie's 29th of March 1885, lot number 1489 as 'View of Ranelagh' by Hogarth bought by Bantry; by 1890 it was in William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (1851-1921) collection; sold at Christie's on 4th May 1922 lot 31 and bought by Frank T. Sabin on behalf of Bearsted for £577.10.0; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death in 1948
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Alexandre-Jean Nöel (Brie-Comte-Robert 1752 – Paris 1834), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 – Warsaw 1780), artist previously catalogued as attributed to William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Nicolas-Louis-Albert Delerive (fl. c.1775 - 1818), artist