The Drawing Room at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire William Alfred Delamotte 1839

The Drawing Room at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
William Alfred Delamotte 1839
From the collection of
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
This interior displays a combination of flamboyant chinoiserie motifs and mundane English Regency chairs and case furniture. Bamboo is used in additional furniture, as well as in door panels, shutter panels and the fretwork frame of the overmantel mirror. The ceiling frieze painted blue with gold Chinese characters and the hanging birdcage compliment the Chinese wallpaper and porcelains. Books and baskets are casually scattered on the floor; flowers and plants, in true Victorian style, decorate the room. The elaborate drapery treatment is very much of the period.
Details
Title: The Drawing Room at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
Creator: William Alfred Delamotte
Date Created: 1839
Signed: Lower left: 1840/ W. A. D. Lower right: NA William Delamotte, 1839 Oxford, in graphite.
Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Christopher Wood Gallery, London
Paper Support: White wove paper
Exhibitions: New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.London, Christopher Wood Gallery. Annual Summer Exhibition of Fine English Watercolors and Drawings, 1990, No. 4? [Illus.].
Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 60 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm (23 5/8 x 29 3/4 x 1 in.)Sheet: 28.9 x 38 cm (11 3/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Bibliography: Charlotte Gere and Floramae McCarron-Cates, " House Proud, From Amateur to Professional and from Grand to Comfortable, " in Gail S. Davidson et al., House Proud, Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 46-47, fig. 22; 97, fig. 26.Christopher Wood Gallery, Annual Summer Exhibition of Fine English Watercolors and Drawings, London, 1990, No. 4? [Illus.].
Type: Drawing
Rights: Thaw Collection
Medium: Brush and watercolor, gold paint and gouache, graphite on white wove paper

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William Alfred Delamotte
1775 - 1863

William Alfred Delamotte, was an English painter and engraver.
W. A. Delamotte was the son of a French refugee. His remarkable drawing skills were apparent from an early age, so that he enjoyed the royal patronage of King George III. After having exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793, he enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools the following year, becoming a student of Benjamin West, another of the King's protégés and President of the Royal Academy. Even during these years of study, Delamotte chose to turn his attention to architectural and landscape work. From the Academy he moved to Oxford, depicting its buildings in numerous sketches. In 1803 he accepted the post of drawing-master at the newly established Royal Military College, Sandhurst, a position he held for forty years.
Besides producing watercolours and a few oils, he turned to printmaking by way of etching, lithography and soft-ground etching.
He was the brother of George Orleans Delamotte, landscape artist and teacher.
Philip Henry Delamotte, photographer and illustrator, was the son of Mary and William Alfred Delamotte. He was born on 21 April 1821 at Sandhurst, Berkshire.
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