Four Views from Dunster Castle: the Village of Dunster, looking to the West up the Avill Valley
attributed to Robert Griffier
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1740
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
830 x 1340 x 50 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726660
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Four Views from Dunster Castle: the Village of Dunster, looking to the West up the Avill Valley, attributed to Robert Griffier (London 1688 – London 1750), previously English school, circa 1750.
Provenance
In Dunster Castle inventory, 1741 as in Little Parlour; in 1781, p. 20 as in Long Passage; in 1910 inventory, p.39 as in Library Passage and as '4 very old views of Minehead, Dunster and Blue Anchor (much damaged)'; previously on loan, 1975; gift of Lt -Col Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (1919 – 2007) to the National Trust in 1981
Credit line
Dunster Castle, The Luttrell Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Robert Griffier, artist British (English) School, artist