- Title:
- Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent
- Former Title(s):
Saint Vincent, Kent, The Seat of Captain William Locker, with Figures Outside the Front Door and Cattle in a Park in the Foreground [1984, Christie’s sales catalog]
Saint Vincent, Kent, the Seat of Capt. William Locker [1979, Country Houses in Great Britain, exhibition catalogue]- Date:
- ca. 1779
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 12 1/2 x 18 inches (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on handwritten label written in ink on back of painting: “This view of St. Vincents my grandfathers place in Kent | was given to me by H. G. Hewlett, he bought it at the Sale of Mr. Wingfield Stratfords pictures etc. at Addington. I think | it is probable that my grandfather gave it to the Stratford | of his day. It is evidently painted by Dom: Serres, whom | my grandfather knew. & feel sure that the figures there | represented are my grandfather & his family. I think he may | have sold St. Vincents when he went to Greenwich Hospital”
Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "D. Serres 177[...]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.566
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.566FR
- Subject Terms:
- cattle | children | country house | dwelling | family | fence | field | garden | gravel | grazing | hedges | hills | kitchen garden | landscape | lawn | livestock | men | pastures | pediment | trees | view | woman
- Associated Places:
- Addington | England | Kent | United Kingdom | West Malling
- Associated People:
- Locker, Edward Hawke (1777–1849), hospital administrator and watercolour painter
Locker, Lucy (b. 1771)
Locker, Elizabeth (b. 1776)
Locker (née Parry), Lucy ( -1780)
Locker, William (1731–1800), Royal Navy Officer - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1047
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
50th Anniversary Exhibition (Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 2001-09-01 - 2002-05-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 200-201, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 47-48, 113, no. 25, pl. 25, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 252, 281, no. 305, fig. 305, N6764 H36 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 248-249, cat. 110, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]