John Dixon, ca. 1740–1810 or 1811, Britishformerly unknown artist, nineteenth centuryFormerly attributed to Hendrik Frans de Cort, 1742–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1789)
Title:
Lee Priory, Kent
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 × 38 3/4 inches (63.5 × 98.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in ocher-color paint, lower left: "Dixon Pinx. | 1785"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.1.8
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
country house | octagon | park (grounds) | green | landscape | architectural subject | clouds | brown | Gothic Revival | trees | priory | house
Associated Places:
Ickham | Europe | United Kingdom | England | Kent
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 40-41, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 76, 116, no. 32, pl. 32, N6764 Y34 1979 (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. 333, 338, 339, no. 382, fig. 382, N6764 H36 + (YCBA)Peter N. Lindfield, Rediscovering Lee Priory's Lost Library Ante-Chamber, Georgian Group Journal, v. 25, The Group, London, p. 207, fig. 1, NA966 G46 (LC) (YCBA)Matthew M. Reeve, "A Child of Strawberry": Thomas Barrett and Lee Priory, Burlington Magazine, v. CLVIX, London, December 2015, p, 836, N1 B87 2015