Newton House from the North
British (Welsh) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710 - circa 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
995 mm (Height); 1428 mm (W)
Place of origin
Wales
Order this imageCollection
Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire
NT 869193
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Newton House from the North, Welsh School, circa 1710-20. A view of Newton House, from the north. Built by Walter Rice (1634-75) between 1660 and 1675, Newton House appears as it did before about 1720, when turrets were added to the corners of the mansion. The formal gardens, here laid out in the Franco-Dutch style, were replaced from 1757 with a more fashionable, English style of landscape garden. Outbuildings used for farming and the management of the estate are set behind the house, with ranks of newly-planted trees and neatly delineated strips of land beyond the gardens. Dinefwr Castle can be seen in the background. One of a set of four views (NT 869191-869194).
Provenance
Acquired by the National Trust from Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor (1935 – 2008), with the aid of the NHMF in 1997
Credit line
Newton House, Dinefwr, The Dynevor Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (Welsh) School, artist
References
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. 80b Major Francis Jones, Portraits and Pictures in Old Carmarthenshire Houses - Joseph Gulston (1745 -1786), The Carmarthenshire Historian, (ed. E. Vernon Jones), vol.V, 1968