GEORGE SAMUEL ELGOOD (1851-1943) 'The Gazebo at Loseley Park'
signed and dated 1891 lower left, watercolour, 38cm x 30.75cm; together with an associated photograph of the same view, apparently taken by Elgood
Provenance: Private Collection, London and Dorset.
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Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
Note: George Samuel Elgood was an English artist and illustrator, known for his views of formal and historic gardens, travelling throughout England, France, Spain and Italy in the course of his professional life. Many of his pictures were used to illustrate ‘Some English Gardens’ (1904) by the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and ‘Italian Gardens’ (1907) which Elgood wrote himself.
Loseley Park, near Guildford, Surrey, has been the home of the More-Molyneux family since the beginning of the 16th century. The present house was built between 1562 and 1568 with stone brought from the ruins of Waverley Abbey. The gardens were designed by Jekyll at the beginning of the 20th century.
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