View of Asolo
William Stokes Hulton (1852 – Venice 1921)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1894 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
520 x 735 mm
Place of origin
Veneto
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609125
Caption
Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), who married the 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) was born in Asolo. Her father painted this picture there four years after her birth. Her mother, Costanza Mazini, was half-Italian, and they lived in the Palazzo Donà, Venice, where they entertained their artist friends, including Sickert and Sargent. The town of Asolo was presented by Venice to Queen Caterina Cornaro in exchange for her dominions of Cyprus and she lived in the castle there from 1489-1509. The poet, Robert Browning first visited Asolo in 1836 and it is the setting of Pippa Passes. The actress Eleonora Duse (1850-1924) and Browning’s son, Pen (1849-1912), are both buried at Asolo. The traveller and writer Freya Stark (1893-1993) lived in Asolo for most of her life.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Asolo by William Stokes Hulton (1852 – Venice 1921), signed and dated bottom right: W.Hulton, 1894. View of the Italian hill top town of Asolo, in the norther region of the Veneto, a figure walking along riverbank in the foreground. Asolo was where Teresa, 8th Lady Berwick was born. William Stokes Hulton, the artist, was her father and used to paint with Sickert and Sargent.
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Number '243' on frame. Verso: No 3 ASOLO William Hulton; Picture by William Hulton....NOTES Inscribed on back: No. CON.REP: 3 ASOLO William Hulton “Picture by William Hulton SUGGESTED CHOICE FOR BEQUEST TO National Trust April 1950
Makers and roles
William Stokes Hulton (1852 – Venice 1921), artist
References
Waterson, 1981: Merlin Waterson, ‘Lady Berwick, Attingham and Italy’, National Trust Studies, 1981, pp.43-68., fig.2, p.44