£280
J.W. Giles of Burghley Lane, Lincolnshire Naïve Artist, mid-19th century - Old Callis, St Peter's Hill, Stamford, contemporaneous manuscript label to verso inscribed, titled and dated November 1859, oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm, Barnby Bendall & Co of Cheltenham repository label to verso
Stamford's current St Peter's Callis Almshouses are a Gothic Revival rebuilding of 1863, on the site of the earlier 15th century almshouse. It is thought to originally have been a pious establishment of the Merchants of the Staple of Calais, hence the name, although nothing is known to have survived from the original medieval building, and, in our cataloguing, we were unable to find another visual representation of the former structure.
Discoloured/yellowed varnish, with some surface wear and dirt. Several patched repairs evident to verso, evident recto with affected portions touched-in with later pigments. Signs of former cleaning, but not scrubbing.
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