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Creator:
Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Title:
Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent
Former Title(s):

Saint Vincent, Kent, The Seat of Captain William Locker, with Figures Outside the Front Door and Cattle in a Park in the Foreground [1984, Christie’s sales catalog]

Saint Vincent, Kent, the Seat of Capt. William Locker [1979, Country Houses in Great Britain, exhibition catalogue]
Date:
ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 18 inches (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on handwritten label written in ink on back of painting: “This view of St. Vincents my grandfathers place in Kent | was given to me by H. G. Hewlett, he bought it at the Sale of Mr. Wingfield Stratfords pictures etc. at Addington. I think | it is probable that my grandfather gave it to the Stratford | of his day. It is evidently painted by Dom: Serres, whom | my grandfather knew. & feel sure that the figures there | represented are my grandfather & his family. I think he may | have sold St. Vincents when he went to Greenwich Hospital”

Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "D. Serres 177[...]"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.566
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.566FR
Subject Terms:
cattle | children | country house | dwelling | family | fence | field | garden | gravel | grazing | hedges | hills | kitchen garden | landscape | lawn | livestock | men | pastures | pediment | trees | view | woman
Associated Places:
Addington | England | Kent | United Kingdom | West Malling
Associated People:
Locker, Edward Hawke (1777–1849), hospital administrator and watercolour painter
Locker, Lucy (b. 1771)
Locker, Elizabeth (b. 1776)
Locker (née Parry), Lucy ( -1780)
Locker, William (1731–1800), Royal Navy Officer
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1047
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Commissioned by William Locker (1731-1800) from the artist, Dominic Serres (1722-1793); acquired by Col. John Wingfield-Stratford (1772-1850) of Addington Place, Kent [a]; by descent to his son, John Wingfield-Stratford (1810-1881) of Addington Place, Kent; by descent to his son, Edward John Wingfield (1849-1903) of Addington Place, Kent; purchased by Henry Gay Hewlett (1832-1897) of Shaw Hall, Addington [b]; by whom given to ­an unnamed grandchild of William Locker [c];…; bought by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) through Colnaghi, Christie’s, London, April 17, 1964 (lot 84, “Saint Vincent, Kent, The Seat of Captain William Locker, with Figures Outside the Front Door and Cattle in a Park in the Foreground”) [d]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981 [e]

Citations:
[a] As per information on label on verso early twentieth century.

[b] As per information on label on verso early twentieth century. Possibly acquired in 1887 when Edward John Wingfield sold Addington Place.

[c] As per information on label on verso

[d] Christie, Manson & Woods. April 17, 1964. Important English Drawings and Pictures c. 1650-c. 1900

[e] Country Houses in Great Britain, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, no. 25, pp. 47-48.

Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

50th Anniversary Exhibition (Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 2001-09-01 - 2002-05-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 200-201, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 47-48, 113, no. 25, pl. 25, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 252, 281, no. 305, fig. 305, N6764 H36 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 248-249, cat. 110, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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