Description
Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil. The manor and estates of Little Easton, later Easton Park, were granted to Henry Maynard, Lord Burleigh’s private secretary in 1590. He was knighted in 1603. The house, Easton Park, was built in 1597 and burnt down in 1847 when it was rebuilt by Hopper. At the date of the present work, Easton Lodge was in the possession of Charles, Viscount Maynard (1752-1824) who inherited the peerage in 1775 and succeeded his father as 5th Baronet in 1792. He married but had no children so the estate was inherited by his nephew.
The house later achieved notoriety as the home of Daisy Maynard who married Francis Greville, later Earl of Warwick, in 1881. She was famous as a socialite who had several affairs with powerful men including Edward VII and was the inspiration for the music hall song ‘Daisy Daisy’.
Although her main residence was Warwick Castle, she retained Easton Lodge and created lavish gardens and a private zoo at the house. Much of the Estate was sold off in the 1890s and again in 1919 and 1920. 1500 acres of woodland and farmland remained in the Maynard family until it was sold in 2004.
This is one of two pictures of this size exhibited at the British Institution in 1808 entitled ‘Part of Page’s Farm, near Easton Park, Essex’ (no.271) or ‘Page’s Farm, Easton Park, Essex, from the West.’ Views of the Keeper’s Lodge, Easton Park are in the Victoria and Albert Musem (Dyce 746) and the British Museum (1904,0819.23), which also has a ‘design for a window blind, Easton Park’, dated 1809.
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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art
Location
Page's Farm, Easton Park, Essex, England
Country
England
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Buildings & Architecture
