6th May, 2021 12:00
British & Continental Pictures, Prints & Sculpture
80
PETER DE WINT, OWS (1784-1849)
PETER DE WINT, OWS (1784-1849) MANOR HOUSE AND CHURCH, LYTES CART, SOMERSET
Inscribed Lytes Cary/6th Oct,r 1841 on the reverse
Pencil and watercolour
23 x 31.5 cm/9 x 12.5 in
Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 5th July 2006, Lot 522
Provenance: With The Fine Art society, London.
It has been suggested that the inscription on the reverse of the watercolour is in the hand of De Wint's wife, Harriet.
Nicholas Pevsner, South and West Somerset Middlesex, 1958, describes Lytes Cary as 'a mixed building', with parts dating from the 14th to the 20th century. The church was probably built about 1343, whereas the hall is ascribed to the mid-15th century, but the windows, porch and bay are c. 1515-20. The south viewing wing with the great parlour dates from 1533 and is advanced in its design for that date. Two miles from the village of Charlton Mackrell, near Ilchester, the medieval manor house of Lytes Cary stands among green fields, the garden enclosed by a line of noble elms and limes. From the 13th to the 18th century it was the home of the Lyte family, whose connection with the house ended nearly two hundred years ago, when the property was sold, and one side of its courtyards was rebuilt as a farmhouse. Today the story of the house down the centuries is explained by an irregular group of grey stone buildings, ranging from the 14th century chapel, 15th century hall and 16th century additions on the south front to the 18th century farm building on the north and the west front built in 1907. The Lytes of Lytes Cary - It is known that the fertile land of the hamlet of Cary (called "Curi" in the Domesday Book) was farmed since Roman times, and a Roman villa has been unearthed beside the Ilchester-Bath road. After the Conquest the manor was held by Humphrey Orescuil, an ancestor of the Gurney family of Sandford Orcas. The Lytes first appear on the scene in 1286, when the tenant of the Gurneys at " Kari" was one William Le Lyte (the name is the Middle English version of the "little "used by Chaucer) who was sergeant-at-law under Edward I and died in 1316. It is believed that Williams' grandson, Peter, built the chapel in 1343, for in that year the transfer of a chantry to Lytes Cary from the adjacent Tuckerscary is recorded. Moreover, fragments of an earlier piscina (possibly belonging to the original chapel which William Le Lyte built on the site between 1286 and 1316 are incorporated in the present building.
Sold for £500
PETER DE WINT, OWS (1784-1849) MANOR HOUSE AND CHURCH, LYTES CART, SOMERSET
Inscribed Lytes Cary/6th Oct,r 1841 on the reverse
Pencil and watercolour
23 x 31.5 cm/9 x 12.5 in
Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 5th July 2006, Lot 522
Provenance: With The Fine Art society, London.
It has been suggested that the inscription on the reverse of the watercolour is in the hand of De Wint's wife, Harriet.
Nicholas Pevsner, South and West Somerset Middlesex, 1958, describes Lytes Cary as 'a mixed building', with parts dating from the 14th to the 20th century. The church was probably built about 1343, whereas the hall is ascribed to the mid-15th century, but the windows, porch and bay are c. 1515-20. The south viewing wing with the great parlour dates from 1533 and is advanced in its design for that date. Two miles from the village of Charlton Mackrell, near Ilchester, the medieval manor house of Lytes Cary stands among green fields, the garden enclosed by a line of noble elms and limes. From the 13th to the 18th century it was the home of the Lyte family, whose connection with the house ended nearly two hundred years ago, when the property was sold, and one side of its courtyards was rebuilt as a farmhouse. Today the story of the house down the centuries is explained by an irregular group of grey stone buildings, ranging from the 14th century chapel, 15th century hall and 16th century additions on the south front to the 18th century farm building on the north and the west front built in 1907. The Lytes of Lytes Cary - It is known that the fertile land of the hamlet of Cary (called "Curi" in the Domesday Book) was farmed since Roman times, and a Roman villa has been unearthed beside the Ilchester-Bath road. After the Conquest the manor was held by Humphrey Orescuil, an ancestor of the Gurney family of Sandford Orcas. The Lytes first appear on the scene in 1286, when the tenant of the Gurneys at " Kari" was one William Le Lyte (the name is the Middle English version of the "little "used by Chaucer) who was sergeant-at-law under Edward I and died in 1316. It is believed that Williams' grandson, Peter, built the chapel in 1343, for in that year the transfer of a chantry to Lytes Cary from the adjacent Tuckerscary is recorded. Moreover, fragments of an earlier piscina (possibly belonging to the original chapel which William Le Lyte built on the site between 1286 and 1316 are incorporated in the present building.
Auction: British & Continental Pictures, Prints & Sculpture, 6th May, 2021
