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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde 1720-1791
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
- View of Southampton
- inscribed verso: The Town of Southampton
- watercolour over pencil on two sheets of laid paper joined
Provenance
By descent from the artist to John Tyndale Warre, Hestercombe House (d.1792);
Elizabeth Warre, Hestercombe House (d.1872), her Executor's sale at Hestercombe, 1872, lot 365 (book 7, 21 views of towns by Bampfylde), bt. Beddoes;
R.H. Beddoes by 1874;
Thence by descent until purchased by the present owner, 2000
Catalogue Note
Bampfylde visited Southampton in the summer of 1770 on his way to the Isle of Wight (see Philip White, A Gentleman of Fine Taste, Exhibition Catalogue 1995, p.10). On 24th July he wrote to his friend, Edward Knight: 'We think of staying here (Lymington) till 10th/11th August & then propose going to Southampton' (letter to Edward Knight, 24th July 1770)