AFTER JAMES WARD RA (1769 - 1859), 19TH CENTURY The Peasant'...

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AFTER JAMES WARD RA (1769 - 1859), 19TH CENTURY The Peasant's Sunday Dinner; Domines Outside the Black Swan One signed lower left and with Christies' label (detached) A pair, oils on canvas, each 54.5 x 46cm Provenance: Charles Edward Gee Boldero Barnard, Cave Castle, South Cave, York; 'Pictures by Old Masters, the Property of Mrs Barnard, late of Cave Castle, South Cave, East Yorks', Christies, June 12 1925, lot 111 and lot 112; Anthony Barbieri Fine Paintings, London, where purchased 1984; thence by descent Literature: C. Reginald Grundy, James Ward R.A., 1909, p.49 (Study For the Figure in the Peasant's Sunday Dinner, From the collection of the Honble. John Ward, M.V.) With accompanying typed note detailing cataloguing and provenance including an entry from Mr. Boldero Barnard's diaries, April 23rd 1845 in which he remarks on James Ward's visit to Cave Castle to view the two pictures. Charles Edward Gee Boldero Barnard (1822 - 1894) who was the son of Edward William Barnard and his wife Philadelphia Wrangham. The Barnard family were Hull merchants who can trace the line back to the late sixteenth century. Multiple sons along the line of descendants became, became mayors of Hull. As with other landed families, the Barnards transformed the rural landscape into which they bought. Cave Castle is a determinedly unique piece of architecture being baronial on a grand scale. Henry Boldero Barnard left his distinct mark when in the late 1790s he designed a market hall in the Market Place with a school above it. Following their systematic programme of rebuilding in one half of South Cave, it turned the village there into a mock-Tudor, almost model-village with very distinctive half-timbered houses which still exist today. (Pevsner & Neave, York and the East Riding, pp.700-1). Charles Edward Gee Boldero Barnard married Sophia Letitia Barnard, the daughter of Andrew Godfrey Stuart of Lisdhu, County Tyrone, the younger son of the Earl of Castlestuart. They had three children: Sophia Isabel who was born and died on 14 January 1867, a son who was born and died on 25 April 1868 and Ursula Mary Florence who was born on 4 July 1869. Charles Barnard died in 1894 and followed by his wife in 1910. She left her estate in the hands of trustees for her sole surviving daughter, Ursula, who lived at Cave Castle with her mother until that time. Ursula Barnard continued living at the estate before moving to Bournemouth in 1925, and tried to sell the South Cave estate at that time. It eventually sold in 1938 after her death, ending the Barnard line. The trustees sold all the art works, furniture and objets d'arts, leaving Cave Castle to transfer into new hands. It has since had several owners and is now a golf club.