Fireplace with painted decoration
Artist: George Brookshaw (1751 - 1823)
Location: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Date: 1790
Materials: wood, copper, gesso gilding & paint
Dimensions: 155 x 210 x 30 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £9,200 (Total: £37,501)
Vendor: H Blairman & Sons Ltd
Review number: 3880 (1993)
Provenance:
Hams Hall, Warwickshire; John D.Rockefeller, 1919; Albany Institue of Art 1946; private collection 1982; with Blairman & Sons Ltd, London 1992.
Description:
Brookshaw's furniture and chimneypieces are composed of marble, wood and copper and distinguished by all-over painted decoration. While many of the painted medallions of landscapes and figures on his furniture and chimneypieces were derived from the work of Angelica Kauffman, the flower decoration was of Brookshaw's own devising.
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