FOLLOWER OF MICHELE MARIESCHI, A VENETIAN FES... Lot n° 31

FOLLOWER OF MICHELE MARIESCHIA VENETIAN FESTIVAL, THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE PALAZZO BELLONI BATTAGIAOil on canvas66 x 96cm (29¾ x 37¾ in.)Provenance:Earl Howe, Gopsall Hall Gopsall Hall was inherited by Penn Assheton Curzon, eldest son of 1st Viscount Curzon, after Charles Jennens died in 1773 unmarried and without an heir. He was an uncle on Penn Assheton Curzon's mother's side. He married Lady Sophia Howe and the house passed down through the Earls Howe until the 4th who sold the house in 1919. A large part of the collection at Gopsall were dispersed in two sales by George Trollope & Sons, October 1918 and June 1920.Charles Jennens (1700-1773) inherited Gopsall Hall a Jacobean house and 724 acre estate from his father in 1747. Three years later, in 1750, he replaced the house with a new, more grandiose building befitting his recently obtained wealth and status. The 'new' Gopsall reflected the fashionable Neo-Palladian taste inspired by contemporary pattern book designs published by such renowned and important figures as Batty Langley, William Halfpenny and William Kent at a cost of £100,000. It was considered the most impressive Georgian house in Leicestershire. The House was demolished in 1952.