Upton House from the South (oil on canvas)

Upton House is a country house in the parish of Ratley and Upton, in the English county of Warwickshire. This view shows the house from across the valley on a winter’s day, with the lake frozen over, and figures skating on it. The house is of 1695 with eighteenth-century additions, before the vast neo-Georgian additions were made by Morley Horder in 1927-8. The steep hill across which the house is seen in the picture now contains planted borders and a formal canal. Upton was bought in 1757 by the banker, Francis Child, through whose great-niece it passed to the Earls of Jersey. It remained in that family until sold by the 7th Earl in 1894.