St. Michael’s Mount

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720 - 1791)

Pen and ink, ink wash and watercolour on paper

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, amateur topographical draughtsman and caricaturist, was born in Somerset, the son of an MP. He attended St John’s College, Oxford and is believed to have visited Europe on the Grand Tour in the 1740s. After inheriting the family estate in 1750, he began to paint watercolours, which he later exhibited at the Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy and the Free Society in London. A keen amateur painter, Bampfylde conducted several painting tours around England and also occasionally worked as an architect. During his life, Bampfylde’s maintained an interest in garden design and was involved in designs for Stourhead in Wiltshire and for his own home at Hestercombe in Somerset.
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    Artist
    Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720 - 1791)
    Title
    St. Michael’s Mount
    Date
    Medium
    Pen and ink, ink wash and watercolour on paper
    Dimensions
    height: 25.00 cm, width: 60.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Agnew's, November 1954
    GAC number
    2866