WILLIAM PAYNE (BRITISH 1760 - 1830)
The view towards Kings Weston House from Penpole Point with the Severn estuary beyond
indisctinctly inscribed and dated *** Weston Somersetshire / Ld. de Clifford Seat near Clifton / overlooking at Penpole point the junction / of the Severn and Avon. This sketched from the terrace above it. 1799 (on the reverse)
watercolour
19.5 x 30 cm (7 3/4 x 12 in)

Kings Weston House was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and built between 1712 and 1719 for the Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician Edward Southwell (1671-1730).