The Amphitheatre at Saltram
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1770 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1202 x 1803 mm (47 1/3 x 71 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872240
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Amphitheatre at Saltram by William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), signed and dated, bottom mid-left: 1770 Wm. Tomkins. The River Plym, looking upstream, with Saltram Woods at the right.
Provenance
Commissioned by John Parker (1743/5 – 1788), Lord Boringdon and thence by descent; accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), artist
References
Saltram, Devon, 1967 The Saltram Collection, Plympton, Devon [National Trust; F. St. John Gore], 1967, p. 66 no. 135T (250) Gore 1966: F. St John Gore, 'A Patron of Portrait and Landscape - the Picture Collection at Saltram House, Devon', Country Life, 2 June 1966, p.1388