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Hall seat

Ref: 10
  • Designer / Maker

    Designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)

    Probably manufactured by Henry Capel (1866-82)

  • Detail

    Oak, with brass handles and studs; the velvet upholstery of later date

    48 x 137 x 51 cm

    English (London), probably 1872

  • Provenance

    Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne (1812-95), and by descent; sold Sotheby’s Belgravia, 28 May 1975, lot 110; acquired through Haslam & Whiteway; Clive and Jane Wainwright

  • Exhibited

    The Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, H. Blairman & Sons, 21 June – 14 July 2023, no. 10

  • Literature

    Mark Girouard, ‘Blackmoor House, Hampshire – I & II The Property of the Earl of Selborne’, Country Life, 29 August 1974, pp. 554-57 and 5 September 1974, pp. 614-17

    Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, London: H. Blairman & Sons, 2023, no. 10

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    Some sources give the name James Capel as the maker of the Waterhouse furniture for Blackmoor House; see, for example, V&A website entry for W.41-1975.  But it seems more likely that the present chair was made by Henry Capel of Great Titchfield Street, London; artistic furniture maker and upholsterer; see https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/capel-henry-1866-1882.

    In Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection (op. cit.), the present hall seat is, probably erroneously, ascribed to James Capel.

    Thanks to Clarissa Ward for drawing our attention to the BIFMO entry.