French fashion at Petworth
Although the 3rd Earl of Egremont is now best remembered as a major patron of Turner and other British artists, in his youth he had fashionable Francophile tastes. Peter Hughes examines the furniture he acquired at Petworth House, Sussex.
Peter Hughes, Monday, 25th August 2008
Notes
1 For the 3rd Earl, see Max Egremont, ‘The Third Earl of Egremont and his Friends’, Apollo, vol. CXXII, no. 284 (October 1985), pp. 280-87, and C. Rowell, I. Warrell and D. Blayney Brown, Turner at Petworth, exh. cat., Petworth House, 2002, pp. 16-27.
2 Petworth House Archives (pha) 12010. See also C. Rowell, ‘French Furniture at Uppark,’ Furniture History, vol. XLIII, 2007, pp. 272 and 290, n. 32.
3 Windsor Castle, Royal Archives, Georgian Papers, no. 25142, quoted by G. de Bellaigue, ‘Martin-Eloy Lignereux and England’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. LXXI, May-June 1968, pp. 283-93, at p. 285.
4 The clock and one candelabrum illus. J. Harris, G. de Bellaigue and O. Millar, Buckingham Palace, 1968, p. 155, and in de Bellaigue, op.cit., pp. 286-87.
5 PHA 5959.
6 F. de Salverte, Les Ebénistes Du XVIIe Siècle, Paris, 1927, art. Rübestück.
7 Both desks were attributed to the Hamilton Palace sale in the Petworth guidebook published in 1981.
8 Tate, UK, illus. Rowell, Warrell and Blayney Brown, op. cit., fig. 124, cat. no. 31.
9 Illus. Les Dessins de Delafosse Epoque Louis XVI Exposés au Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Donation David Weill), Paris, n.d., fig. 67.
10 Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris, VI E 15 Rés.
11 Illus. H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, no.3.12.3.
12 Illus. Tardy, French Clocks The World Over, 1981, vol. II, p. 52.
13 See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, vol. II, pp. 792-93.
14 Illus. Savill, op. cit, p. 794.
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