St. Michael’s Mount

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, amateur topographical draughtsman and caricaturist, was born in Somerset, the son of an MP. He attended St John’s College, Oxford and is believed to have visited Europe on the Grand Tour in the 1740s. After inheriting the family estate in 1750, he began to paint watercolours, which he later exhibited at the Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy and the Free Society in London. A keen amateur painter, Bampfylde conducted several painting tours around England and also occasionally worked as an architect. During his life, Bampfylde’s maintained an interest in garden design and was involved in designs for Stourhead in Wiltshire and for his own home at Hestercombe in Somerset.

Places

England, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, English Channel

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, island, shore, sea, house, castle, sailboat, ship

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), ink, watercolour (as object name), ink wash

Artist

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720 - 1791)

Title

St. Michael’s Mount

Date

Medium

Pen and ink, ink wash and watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 25.00 cm, width: 60.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnew's, November 1954

GAC number

2866