View from Whiteway towards Dartmoor
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1270 mm (39 x 50 in)
Place of origin
Chudleigh
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872252
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View from Whiteway towards Dartmoor by William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), circa 1770. In the right background is the South-East corner of Dartmoor, probably including Haytor. The village seen in the distance at the right is likely to be Hennock.
Provenance
Commissioned by John Parker, Lord Boringdon (1734/5 - 88) 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
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, p.1388