The North Front of The Vyne
Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse/Mühlhausen 1727 – Kassel 1798)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1755
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
665 x 970 x 0 mm
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719369
Caption
This painting represents a view of Vyne from the beginning of John Chute’s stewardship of the property, who acquired it in 1754. The artist, Johann Henry Muntz, was at this time still employed by Horace Walpole. Though the painting has been described as ‘pedestrian in quality and technique’ it nonetheless provides an important record of the exterior design and setting of the property in the mid-eighteenth century. The portico on the north front was added in 1654.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The North Front of The Vyne by Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse 1727 – Kassel 1798), 1755. A view of The Vyne from across the lake, with two framing trees in the foreground.
Provenance
Horace Walpole's Bed Chamber, Strawberry Hill; Strawberry Hill sale, (22nd day, Lot 27) 19 May 1842 bought by William Wiggett Chute; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956).
Makers and roles
Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse/Mühlhausen 1727 – Kassel 1798), artist
Exhibition history
Strawberry Hill Restored, Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham, 2018 - 2019
References
Strawberry Hill 1842., p.221 [Lot 27] Burn 1842: J. H. Burn, Aedes Strawberrianae. Names of Purchasers and the Prices to the Sale Catalogue of the Collections of Art and Vertû, at Strawberry Hill formed by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford , London c.1842, p.52 [Lot 27] Harris 1979 John Harris, The Artist and the Country House. A History of Country House and Garden View Painting in Britain 1540-1870, London 1979, no. 323