View of Dunster Castle, Somerset
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1729
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1730 x 1320 x 80 mm
Place of origin
Dunster
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726100
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Dunster Castle, Somerset, English school, early 18th century. The red brick castle, with its baroque stone frontispiece, stands on a wooded hill with the river beneath; cattle and sheep and figures in the foreground.
Provenance
In Dunster Castle inventory, 1741 as in Withdrawing Room and as 'The Prospect of Dunster in a gilt frame £2.2.0'; previously on loan, 1975; gift of Lt -Col Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (1919 – 2007) to the National Trust in 1981
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist