Lot 248: COPLESTONE WARRE BAMPFYLDE 1720-1791

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
inscribed verso: View of Torbay near Torquay 1782 and inscribed on old label attached to the backboard: This Picture/given to R.H. Beddoes/1874 by CCB

23.5 by 48 cm., 9 1/4 by 19 in.

pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with scratching out on laid paper

By descent from the artist to John Tyndale Warre, Hestercombe House (d.1792);

Elizabeth Warre, Hestercombe House (d.1872), her Executor's sale at Hestercombe, 1872, lot 365 (book 7, 21 views of towns by Bampfylde), bt. Beddoes;

R.H. Beddoes by 1874;

Thence by descent until purchased by the present owner, 2000

Copleston Warre Bampfylde was the only son of John Bampfylde, M.P. for Devonshire. He resided at Hestercombe in Somerset and exhibited his works at the Royal Academy and elsewhere between 1763 and 1783. He was for some time Colonel of the Somersetshire militia and it is likely that it was in this capacity that he visited Torbay in 1782 and saw the fleet manoeuvres in the harbour. He died at Hestercombe on 29th August 1791