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ANTIQUE #SA780970

Robert Thomas Buttery, Fl. 1824-1865 a Prospect Of The South Front Of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, From The Park And Lake newstead Abbey indistinctly Signed oil On Canvas 50.80 X 76.20

£3,500    $4,398    €4,207
Robert Thomas Buttery, Fl. 1824-1865
 
A Prospect of the South Front of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, from the Park and Lake
 
Newstead Abbey
 
indistinctly signed
 
oil on canvas
 
50.80 x 76.20
 
Engraved ,1827 William M Fellows after R T Buttery and published by R T Buttery. The Engraving is Lettered below with the title and a dedication to the present owner Lt Col. Wildman by the artist; with producer names ''R T Buttery Pinxit / Mr W M Fellows sc.'' Along the bottom ''Published as the Act Directs, by R.T.Buttery Nottingham, Feby. 26th 1827''
 
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The 6th Lord Byron, the Poet sold Newstead Abbey to his old school friend at Harrow, Colonel Thomas Wildman in December 1817, the sale being ratified in 1818, thus breaking the continued ownership of Newstead by the Byron Family for the first time in 263 years. This was an end of an era and the start of a new era of building or virtually the complete rebuilding of Newstead, so that the house we see today is largely his creation. Wildman was well respected in Nottinghamshire during his residency in the county from 1817-1859. The Wildmans were originally from Lancashire . The Wildman family had obtained Quebec Estate, a large sugar plantation in Jamaica, from William Beckford, who was having financial problems. The wealth generated from this plantation provided Wildman with the means to purchase Newstead Abbey in 1818 for £95,000 from a Mr. Clawton, who had bought it of Lord Byron for £14,000. The Abbey was owned by his friend and old schoolmate, Lord Byron who, like Beckford, was having financial difficulties. Byron had been trying to sell the Abbey since 1812. Of the sale, Byron''s half-sister Augusta said Wildman had ''soul enough to value the dear Abbey...''
 
Although Wildman''s purchase ended almost four centuries of Byron family ownership of the Abbey, he was considered to be the man who saved Byron''s home. He spent £100,000 restoring it, hiring the architect John Shaw to make improvements. He a...
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