The description and painting appeared in the August 1825 edition of Ackermann’s Repository.
The building is actually called Watermouth Castle, but was built in 1825 to resemble a castle and is actually a country house and was the primary residence of the Bassett family.
Watermouth seat of Davie Esq.” The Palladian house at Watermouth in 1796, built by Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clinton (1696–1751), as drawn by Rev. John Swete, before demolition and replacement by Watermouth Castle
