Giles My feeling is that this is a composite background added in by the artist for effect. It is certainly not Westbury Court which is flat. The church could easily be Newnham Church (only a few miles from Westbury) which is on a hill like that but the opposite side of the Severn is very flat. Bob Philpott ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:00 AM Subject: GLOUCESTER Digest, Vol 3, Issue 521 > > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Portrait in Gloucestershire (Giles Colchester) > 2. Re: Portrait in Gloucestershire (Marilyn Moffat) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:33:01 -0000 > From: "Giles Colchester" <[email protected]> > Subject: [GLS] Portrait in Gloucestershire > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:02:06 +0000 > From: "Marilyn Moffat" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GLS] Portrait in Gloucestershire > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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. 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