Lot 502: Attributed to Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720-1791)

Attributed to Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720-1791)
The gardens at Cowdray; and The entrance front, Cowdray
pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour, with touches of white, one heightened with gold, on paper laid down on canvas
12½ x 20 in. (31.8 x 50.8 cm.)
a pair (2)

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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde was an amateur topographical draughtsman and caricaturist, He showed several works at the Royal Academy (1771-1783), as an honorary exhibitor, including views of Devonshire and Southampton. He was also a landscape gardener and remodelled his estate at Hestercoombe, Somerset.