1914
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Melford Hall is a 1914 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted Melford Hall in watercolour. The scene shows the Hall and greenhouses across the garden pond. Potter often sketched here while visiting her cousin. The house connects to her children’s books. She tested stories on her cousin’s kids during stays. It also inspired backdrops for two of her tales. Find more of her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Beatrix Potter depicts Melford Hall in Long Melford, Suffolk, viewed from across the garden pond. The painting shows the hall, greenhouses, and surrounding walls with their reflections in the water, along with trees and shrubs in the middle ground and the hall’s towers rising into the clouds in the background. The work was created in 1914 during one of Potter’s visits to her cousin Ethel Hyde-Parker’s home. It was later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.
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