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Huge 1800's British Oil Painting Family Portrait Dorset Country House Children
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About the Item
The children of Robert Williams with their go-cart in the grounds of Bridehead, Dorset *see historical notes below.
ATTRIBUTED TO RAMSAY RICHARD REINAGLE (1775-1862)
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 37.5 x 48 inches
canvas : 32 x 44 inches
Provenance: the painting came from the actual house that this painting originates from: Bridehead in Dorset.
Bridehead is an exceptional manor house in West Dorset situated amongst picturesque chalk downland. It has been the home of seven generations of the Williams family for over 220 years - the children of one generation are depicted here in this painting.
The lands of Littlebredy were first documented as Brydian in the Domesday Survey, having been gifted to Cerne Abbey by the Duke of Cornwall in 987. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII, the estate passed through various owners until the Mellor family built the first manor house beside the source of the River Bride in about 1600. The Mellors became absentee owners as time went on, and the house was neglected by farm tenants until the estate was purchased by Robert Williams in 1797. It is his children in this painting.
Robert was descended from a younger son of the Williams family at Herringston, just outside Dorchester, and had made good as a cabinet maker, ship’s upholder, East India Company trader and banker in London before moving back to be closer to his family’s Dorset roots. He and subsequent generations transformed the old farmhouse into a Regency manor house and landscaped the surrounding grassland into a park, damming the river source to form a two-and-a-half-acre lake beside the house, as well as converting Littlebredy into a model village, providing its mediaeval church with one of Dorset’s few spires, and extending the house westwards in a distinctive Gothic Revival style.
Condition: very good condition
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- Attributed to:RAMSAY RICHARD REINAGLE (1775-1862) (1775 - 1862, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509316785982

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