Landwade Hall, Cambridgeshire (after Joseph Murray Ince)
Henry Bright (Saxmundham 1814 - Ipswich 1873)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1834 - 1873
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
685 x 890 mm
Place of origin
Cambridgeshire
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515542
Caption
This nineteenth-century topographical view shows the Jacobean moated Hall, originally built by Sir John Cotton in 1559 and the home of his descendents for 200 years. The first hall was destroyed in 1850, being replaced by a Victorian Gothic house, which in turn was destroyed some 20 years later. Eventually the Cotton family moved to the more centrally located Madingly Hall. Brighthad early on been influenced by some of the Norwich school of landscape painters including John Crome and Cotman and later in London met the well known artists David Cox, Prout and J. D. Harding. He travelled extensively both in this country and abroad and was very popular; Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were among his patrons.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landwade Hall, Cambridgeshire, (after Joseph Murray Ince) by Henry Bright (Saxmundham 1814 – Ipswich 1873), signed H. Bright. A view of the Jacobean moated hall, church of St Nicholas among trees on far side of moat with flock of sheep grazing in front, swans and coots in river in foreground.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Henry Bright (Saxmundham 1814 - Ipswich 1873), artist after Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859), artist