Lot 259
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[William Beckford] An early 19th century embroidered woolwork panel
Auction: 7 December 2007 at 10:00 GMT
£360
Description
apparently depicting William Beckford's estate in Jamaica, with two figures walking in a wooded gorge with waterfall, within a rococo carved gilt-gesso frame
Dimensions
overall: 80cm wide, 59cm high, 6cm deep
Footnote
Sir William Beckford, 1709-1770, twice Lord Mayor, was the son of a wealthy Jamaican sugar planter and owned more than 22,000 acres at his Rosehall Estate in Jamaica.
His son, William Beckford the younger, 1760-1844, was left £1 million and a further £100,000 a year upon his father’s death. Beckford the younger was famed for his connoisseurship, his building of his seminal Gothic folly at Fonthill Abbey in Yorkshire, and also his Gothic novel, Vathek.