James Thornhill versus Benjamin Styles: a painting from Moor Park rediscovered

• Autores: François Marandet
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 168, Nº 1479, 2026 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Botticelli in Wales), págs. 576-581
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The creation of the lavish interiors of Moor Park, Hertfordshire, involved a major commission of paintings from James Thornhill. A legal dispute arose when the owner of the house, Benjamin Haskyns Styles, refused to pay the artist the agreed fee and subsequently replaced the paintings. The rediscovery of one of Thornhill’s works for Moor Park, depicting the family of Coriolanus, sheds new light on this contentious episode, as well as on early eighteenth-century taste and patronage.