CIRCA 1740, THE ASSOCIATED PAINTING SIGNED THOMAS DALL AND DATED 1773

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD TRUMEAU
CIRCA 1740, THE ASSOCIATED PAINTING SIGNED THOMAS DALL AND DATED 1773
The giltwood frame with egg-and-dart, strapwork and beaded borders surrounding a rectangular landscape depicting Oakedge Hall within parkland, signed T DALL 1773 lower left, above later divided mirror plates
60¼ in. (153 cm.) high, 61½ in. (156 cm.) wide

Provenance

THE PAINTING
Colwich Rectory, Colwich, Staffordshire.
E.F. Ames; Christie's, London, 4 July 1952, lot 106 (44gns. To Appleby).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 November 1982, lot 36.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1983, lot 77.

The overmantel mirror with the painting: acquired from Stair and Company, New York, 23 September 1985.

Literature

E. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters, New Haven, 1981, p. 98.

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Lot Essay

The Danish landscape artist Nicholas Thomas Dall (fl.1748-1776) trained in Italy and was working in London by 1756 painting scenery for the Covent Garden Theatre; he was chosen an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1771. This view of Oakedge Hall is certainly one of the several paintings supplied for Thomas Anson (d. 1773) whose principle residence was Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire. Anson purchased Oakedge in 1765, the subject of two further works by Dall, which are both still at Shugborough, including a virtually identical painting dated 1775 (E. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters, New Haven, 1981, p. 98).

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