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St. Leonard's Hill, Windsor

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

1854

Artist

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on buff paper.
St. Leonard’s Hill sits in the parish of Clewer on the outskirts of Windsor. The house, originally known as Forest Court, was built by Thomas Sandby for Countess Waldegrave in the 1760s and was renamed Gloucester Lodge after his marriage to the Duke of Gloucester in 1766. The house was bought by William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt in 1781 and remained in the Harcourt family until it was acquired by Sir Francis Barry in 1872. He transformed it into a French style chateau but on the death of Lady Barry in 1924 the house was mostly demolished.

Lear’s patron Lady Waldegrave was married to George Harcourt of Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire which is likely to be his link to the house. Lear was in England from October 1854 to December 1855 and this is one of his rare exhibited watercolours.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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St. Leonard's Hill, Windsor, England

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