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In the 1680s and 1690s, scores of British landowners, including Charlecote, sought to remodel their estates in the French fashion adopted from the Dutch water garden as you can see in the 1690-1 painting in the Great Hall (possibly by Jan Siberechts ), with brand-new parterres, kitchen gardens, ornate waterworks and radiating avenues of limes, chestnuts and elms.

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NOTE: Frank Storr says
I have ‘foraged’ for information on this artist and it may well be correct. In the late 1670s and 1680s he travelled around the country executing commissions by the aristocracy to paint their properties. If you look under ‘images’ when you google Jan Siberechts there are examples of his work that suggest he is the artist in question. He was known as the ‘father of English landscape painting’ his speciality being the birds-eye view of the properties. Although not 100% sure the painting is Siberechts, it seems more than likely that it is and would point to the date of 1690 as being compatible. Siberechts died in 1703.