Trewithen Pastoral Figures among Ruins circle of John Wootton, c.1735 Toggle Zoom in Zoom out caption circle of John Wootton, Pastoral Figures among Ruins Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved) Share-icon Downloads Zoom in Details Country House Trewithen Title(s) Pastoral Figures among Ruins Date c.1735 Medium and support Oil on canvas Dimensions Overall height: 60 cm, Overall width: 13.5 cm Artist circle of John Wootton (1682-1764) Catalogue Number TN5 Description An overmantel framed in a contemporary George II giltwood frame. The painting and overmantel are described in an inventory of Trewithen taken in 1768 as ‘in the Drawing Room: ‘A Chimney Looking Glass in a Gilt frame middle plate 34½ by 18 in; the 2 ends Do 18 by 9 in, with a Landskip – £3 – 13 – 6.’1 It seems likely that the overmantel dates from Philip Hawkins II’s building phase of the house. The painting itself seems likely to be by a British decorative artist imitating Dutch seventeenth-century models. It may be by the same hand as the overmantel in the Drawing Room (TN14). In the inventory of June 1829 it is listed in the Drawing Room as ‘1 Picture. Landscape over & enclosed in a Frame with pier glass on the Mantelpiece’, and valued at £5. by Jonny Yarker Footnotes CRO J/1/1691. 1 Related catalogue items from Trewithen Trewithen James Heywood British School, c. mid-1720s Trewithen James Ferguson James Northcote, c.1775–6 Trewithen Dutch Shipping Sebastian Pether, ? c.1820s
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