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John Wilton, (or Wilkes) 'Decus Culinae', 1729 (oil on panel)

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John Wilton, (or Wilkes) 'Decus Culinae', 1729 (oil on panel)
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English School, (18th century) / English
Location
Chirk Castle, Wrexham, UK
Medium
oil on panel
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176.5x106.8 cms
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Mr Whitmore. Oil painting on panel, John Wilton, (or Wilkes) (d.1751) 'Decus Culinae' by Mr Whitmore, 1729. John Wilton or Wilkes, described in a late eighteenth-century account of servants as ‘a deformed Cripple taken into the Family by Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Bt (1655-1716) and kept for Charity from his Youth to his Death which happen’d in October 1751 – near sixty years old’. Not strictly a servant, he was given the courtesy title ‘Ornament of the Kitchens’. Chirk Castle, Wrexham (Accredited Museum)

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18th century / ceramic / servant / man / jug / 18th century fashion / fashion / portrait / pottery / kitchen (room) / house / housing / Painting / Mzpainting
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