This is a wild guess (but also partly educated, honestly!!!) but could it be around somewhere like Painswick Reasons for suggesting this: 1 ) just over the chap's right shoulder is a small outlier - ie a flat topped hill once part of the scarp but now an isolated hill in the vale having been cut off and left by erosion - the most significant I can think of are Bredon Hill North of Cheltenham and Cam Long Down near Dursley. It can't be the former as if I am right this is looking south along the Cotswold scarp, and Bredon is a northern outler with no "edge" to the north. 2) to the right of the outlier is a silver sliver which could well be the river Severn (it kinsd of looks lik tha all the way along there) 3) Around Mr Colchester the land is hummocky, and could be heath - so I think this might be one of the Edge coomons - like Painswick Beacon or Haresfiled?? 4) The church - could be any - it isn't really in any real scale in the landscape I think- so it could represent any - but Horsley church is in the area I was thinking of and it has a square tower. Of course it could be a backgound but that also could have local context. Marilyn On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Giles Colchester <[email protected]>wrote: > Does anyone recognise the background location of the picture given in this > link? http://www.milesbarton.com/work.htm?ID=67 The sitter is thought to > be > a Mr Colchester of Westbury Court, although at present I have not been able > to identify him, and actually suspect he is Francis Wemyss who later > inherited Westbury Court in Gloucestershire. To help me identify him, it > would be grateful to know if any reference is given by the location in the > background. I would be grateful to know if any listers recognise this > location? Is it the Wye valley, which would make sense? Or is it just an > artists back ground cloth? > Giles Colchester > Researching family Colchester, any place, any time, any spelling. > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Regards Marilyn