Mount Edgcumbe from Stonehouse Hill

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

Torpoint, England, Plymouth, Devon, Cornwall, Hamoaze, Mount Edgecumbe, Plymouth Sound

Subjects

seascape/coastal scene, tree, cow, man, walking stick, field, hedgerow, house, ship

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720 - 1791)

Title

Mount Edgcumbe from Stonehouse Hill

Date

Medium

Pen and ink and wash on paper

Dimensions

height: 19.50 cm, width: 74.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnew's, November 1954

Inscription

BL: 1. Mt. Edgcumbe / 2 Maker Tower / 3 The Blockhouse Battery / 4 Crimble Passage / 5 The Kings Brewhouse / 6 Ham Oze / 7 The New Dyke round ye Dock Yard / 8 Stonehouse Creek

GAC number

3029