GIFTS TO AYSCOUGHFEE

This is an extract from Ayscoughfee and its History 1923. I don’t know if somebody from Ayscoughfee could update this list?

Amongst the gifts which have been made to the Ayscoughfee Committee have been some Thirty pictures, presented by the late Mr Edward Gentle, which are now exhibited in the drawing room of the Hall. These pictures are as follows:

• The Scheldt, Texel Island
• Lynton, North Dexon (Devon)
• Near Skegness, Lincolnshire
• The Shepherdess
• Children on the Beach-Old Hastings
• Leaving port (after Clarkson Stanfield)
• Boats near Rottingdean, Sussex
• Fishing Boats near Brixham, Devon
• The Glen
• The Toll Gale (winter)
• Farmstead and Church (winter)
• Portsmouth Harbour
• Fruit, Artist unknown; Chromo Litho;
• Frigate and Dutch Galliot, off Dover
• Portrait of Mr Gentle, by Tanquery, Paris
• Sawbridgeworth Meadow
• The Corn Field, painted by J. Kinnaird
• Homeward Bound, of the North Foreland
• Deal Luggers Racing to a Vessel on the Goodwin Sands
• Fishing Boats at Sea (sunrise)
• Interior of Milan Cathedral. Artist unknown
• Entrance of the Port of Ostend 1) ;
• Off the Coast of Devon; Chromo Litho
• Children and Bird’s Nest
• Near Brixham
• Fishing Smack off Harwich, by J. Moore, Ipswich
• Off Ferrol.

Mrs Johnson, the former owner of the property, contributed two valuable Oil Paintings, these being Portraits of her late husband and herself.

The late Alderman Jackson, of Grimsby, a native of Spalding, gave a presentation portrait of himself, and a collection of objects, including a miniature Ship, made by himself ; and interesting old Weapons and Curios gathered from various parts of the world.

A Bedstead upon which our late queen (then Princess Victoria) slept at Wansford, when on her way to visit Burghley House, Stamford, is in one of the upper rooms, having been presented by a Townsman.

A pair of fine swans (also the gift of a Townsman) were presented to the Committee and placed in the Lake, where they were for some time the admiration of the visitors, but in consequence of the limited water space, they died in the course of a few months. One was preserved, and is now in the Hall.