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Equestrian statue detail, Powis Castle
What a contrast there is between the house and the garden of Powis Castle at Welshpool in the Welsh borders. The house is a vault of paintings, furniture etc extracted one way or another from half of Wales, it seems, and then from a substantial portion of India by the Clive family. To me it seemed dead, dead, dead.
The garden, however, is stupendous, set on a steep slope and terraces below the castle so that it collects sunlight for most of the day.
'Fame by Andries Carpentiere (c1677-1737) from the workshop of John van Nost the elder (d 1729). Carpentiere, of Flemish origin, had settled in England by 1700 and was trained by the Flemish-born London-based sculptor van Nost, becoming his principal assistant. The workshop supplied many of the lead garden sculptures in the castle grounds.'
(According to:- geotopoi.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/powis-castle/ )
NB:- 'The statue in the courtyard depicts the female figure Fame borne by the winged horse Pegasus. It originally featured as a fountain centrepiece in the Baroque water gardens that were located at the bottom of the terraces, but which were demolished in the first decade of the 19th century. The piece was restored in 1987 and received a Grade II* listing in 1996.'
Equestrian statue detail, Powis Castle
What a contrast there is between the house and the garden of Powis Castle at Welshpool in the Welsh borders. The house is a vault of paintings, furniture etc extracted one way or another from half of Wales, it seems, and then from a substantial portion of India by the Clive family. To me it seemed dead, dead, dead.
The garden, however, is stupendous, set on a steep slope and terraces below the castle so that it collects sunlight for most of the day.
'Fame by Andries Carpentiere (c1677-1737) from the workshop of John van Nost the elder (d 1729). Carpentiere, of Flemish origin, had settled in England by 1700 and was trained by the Flemish-born London-based sculptor van Nost, becoming his principal assistant. The workshop supplied many of the lead garden sculptures in the castle grounds.'
(According to:- geotopoi.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/powis-castle/ )
NB:- 'The statue in the courtyard depicts the female figure Fame borne by the winged horse Pegasus. It originally featured as a fountain centrepiece in the Baroque water gardens that were located at the bottom of the terraces, but which were demolished in the first decade of the 19th century. The piece was restored in 1987 and received a Grade II* listing in 1996.'