Old Master and British Works on Paper
Old Master and British Works on Paper
Lots 374 - 429: Property from the Collection of A. Alfred Taubman
Samuel Wyatt
Section of the Proposed Gallery at Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 25, 10:34 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Samuel Wyatt
Weeford 1737 - 1807 London
Section of the Proposed Gallery at Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire
Pen and gray ink and green and gray wash;
inscribed in brown ink, upper center: Section of the Gallery
259 by 450 mm; 10¼ by 17⅝ in. (sight size)
her sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 April 1987, lot 642
Blithfield Hall has been the property of the Bagot family since 1360, apart from a short gap during and after the Second World War. The present house incorporates much 16th century work, but some of the older walls may well be mediaeval. During the 18th century, several architects were involved in modernizing the house, including Charles Trubshaw during the 1740s, and James Stuart and Samuel Wyatt, both after 1768 on the succession of the 6th Baronet, Sir Willaim Bagot, later first Lord Bagot.
Wyatt's designs were not used, and his grand initial project (to remodel the west front) was progressively reduced, before Lord Bagot decided to abandon the idea completely. The whole house was Gothicized and extended for the second Lord by John Buckler in the 1820s, with the loss of Trubshaw's work.
The present lot shows Wyatt's suggestion for the bow-fronted rebuilding of the West Front.