Lot 48
WILLIAM EDEN NESFIELD (1835-1888) (DESIGNER), JAMES FORSYTH (1827-1910) (MAKER)
AESTHETIC MOVEMENT HALL SETTLE, CIRCA 1868
£1,134
Auction: 19 April 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
oak
Dimensions
Provenance
Provenance: Designed for Henry Vallance, Farnham Park, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire (contents sold 1905)
John Bevill Fortescue, Dropmore Park, Burnham, Buckinghamshire
James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, Dropmore Park, Burnham, Buckinghamshire
Sold Sotheby's, 18th March 1969, 'The Valuable Contents of Dropmore'
Holloway Auctioneers, Banbury, Oxfordshire, 2nd December 2014, lot 526
Footnote
Literature: Eastlake C.L. History of the Gothic Revival, 1872, where an in-situ line drawing is illustrated.
Cooper, J., Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, p. 133, pl. 304 where the above line drawing is also illustrated; and p. 134, pl. 306 where the comparable settle at Cragside is illustrated (in a painting by H.H. Emmerson).
Note: Nesfield designed a similar pair of settles for the dining room at Cragside, William George Armstrong's country house in Rothbury, Northumberland, which he extended, with Richard Norman Shaw, in 1870-1872. These are the only other settles of this style known to have been made.
