Ruins of Cowdray House with a Cottage
possibly Matilda Theresa Talbot (1871 - 1958)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1900 - 1958
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
330 x 430 mm
Place of origin
Wiltshire
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996505
Caption
This is an amateur work by Matilda-Gilchrist Clark (1871 – 1958), who assumed the name Talbot, when she inherited Lacock. She presented Lacock to the National Trust in 1944. She was fascinated by the history of Lacock, and in 1932 she held a pageant to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the foundation of the abbey, posing as Ela, the Countess of Salisbury. During the Second World War Maltilda had 85 evacuee children living and learning in Lacock. She never married, devoting herself to the house. In her memoirs, she expressed the hope that Lacock ‘may adapt itself to all the changes through which we are living, so as to preserve the spirit sympathetically enough to reach and touch contemporary thought’.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ruins of Cowdray House with a Cottage, possibly Matilda Theresa Talbot (formerly Gilchrist-Clark) (1871-1958).
Provenance
bought by private treaty from Petronella Dittmer, Mrs. Burnett-Brown, 2009
Credit line
Lacock Abbey (National Trust)
Makers and roles
possibly Matilda Theresa Talbot (1871 - 1958), artist