View of Runnymede from Cooper's Hill with a Distant View of Windsor Castle
Edmund John Niemann (Islington 1813 – Brixton 1876)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1833 - 1876
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
725 x 1231 mm
Place of origin
Runnymede
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515658
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Runnymede from Cooper's Hill with a distant View of Windsor Castle by Edmund John Niemann (Islington 1813 – Brixton 1876). Extensive landscape with river in middle distance. Trees to left, cottage at bottom of a lane. The 183 acres of Runnymede, where King John affixed his seal to Magna Carta in 1215, was given to the National Trust in 1931 by Lady Fairhaven and her two sons.
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
Edmund John Niemann (Islington 1813 – Brixton 1876), artist