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ANTIQUE #SA868401

Charles Walter Radclyffe, Oil On Canvas, Dowton Castle From Downton Woods Herefordshire, Shropshire Hills Beyond

£6,500    $8,116    €7,783
Charles Walter Radclyffe, 1817–1903
 
Dowton Castle from Downton Woods Herefordshire, with the Shropshire Hills beyond
 
signed '' C W Radclyffe'' and further inscribed on a label attached to the reverse '' ''Downton Woods, Herefordshire, Early Spring'' by Charles W Radclyffe.''
 
oil on canvas
 
Provenance
 
from a descendant of the artist
 
Notes
 
Downton Castle is a grade I listed 18th-century country house in the parish of Downton on the Rock in Herefordshire, England, situated about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Ludlow, Shropshire. The south-facing entrance front has a central square tower, six bays to the left terminating in an octagonal tower and five bays to the right flanked by a square tower, the whole resembling a medieval castle with embattled parapets. Pevsner considered the inspiration to be the French semi-fortified houses in paintings by Claude Lorraine or Gaspard Poussin.
 
It was the Norman baron Ralph de Mortimer, who as part of his reward for helping William the Conqueror defeat the English in 1066, was given Downton. After a mention in the Doomsday Book of 1086 the estate was quietly left to its own devices for the next six centuries until, in 1727, Richard Knight, a successful iron smelter, acquired it. He in turn left it to his grandson Richard Payne Knight, a ‘libertine and freethinker’, who was a founding member of the Picturesque Movement that wished to `improve’ the landscape
 
The estate of Downton was acquired by Richard Knight (1659–1749) a wealthy ironmaster from Madeley, Shropshire, and proprietor of the Bringewood Ironworks. The Downton Estate is part of the `birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’. It is less than 25 miles from Iron Bridge, the world heritage site where the technique of smelting iron with coke was perfected in the late 18th century. It was at Downton, in the gorge, where over ten percent of the country’s iron, from nails to plough shares, was produced. There were eleven working mills on the Estate and while s...
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