By Henry John Boddington
Located in Essex, MA
A view of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire, from the north east showing the entrance front and Village Church as seen from Coneygree.
Signed with initials and dated 'H.J.B./1848.'
Provenance: Commissioned from the artist by Beriah Botfield (1807-1863), in 1848, by whom bequeathed to the Thynne family of Longcleat where it hung until 1945.
Literature: B. Botfield, Catalogue of Pictures in the Possession of Beriah Botfield, Esq., at Norton Hall, London, 1848.
B. Botfield, Catalogue of Pictures at Norton Hall, London, 1863.
The present picture is from a set of three views of Norton Hall painted by Boddington for Beriah Botfield in 1848. Norton Hall, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire, was acquired by Beriah Botfield's father, also named Beriah (1768-1813), who had augmented an already considerable fortune left to him by his own father, and who, according to J.P. Neale in his Views of Seats, published in 1825, completed additions to the house in 1808 which greatly improved it. The younger Beriah began to alter the house to his own taste on his coming of age in 1828. He established his own printing press there as early as 1830, on which, among other works, he published Stemmata Botevilliana, his own account of the Boteville or Botfield family. The house was not only a repository for his celebrated library but also home to his extensive picture collection, the catalog of which he also printed privately in 1848. The house was demolished in 1945.
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