Beauchamp-Proctor Family and Friends at Langley Park by Wootton

Acquisition of painting by John Wootton (1682-1764), The Beauchamp-Proctor Family and Friends at Langley Park, Norfolk, 1749 (oil on canvas; 151x200cm, signed and dated). This conversation piece shows Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor pointing towards his magnificent Palladian mansion. Also in the group are his wife and their daughter Anne, who was to marry another prominent Norfolk landowner, Sir Edmund Bacon. It is considered one of Wootton's very best country house portraits.