Lot 249: COPLESTONE WARRE BAMPFYLDE 1720-1791

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
inscribed verso: The Town of Southampton

22 by 42 cm., 8 3/4 by 16 1/2 in.

watercolour over pencil on two sheets of laid paper joined

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

Bampfylde visited Southampton in the summer of 1770 on his way to the Isle of Wight (see Philip White, A Gentleman of Fine Taste, Exhibition Catalogue 1995, p.10). On 24th July he wrote to his friend, Edward Knight: 'We think of staying here (Lymington) till 10th/11th August & then propose going to Southampton' (letter to Edward Knight, 24th July 1770)