New Forest and Forest village paintings

From a local history point of view, the New Forest paintings are of immense importance.  They record the Forest just before photography became common and are often the only pictorial record of the smaller buildings in the Forest of the mid 19th Century.

Barns and cottages at Pikes Hill
Lyndhurst - 1858

Lodge to Minstead Manor
- undated.

. . . and at the other end of the social scale, Rosiere in Lyndhurst, Capt. Dashwood's house. Sir Henry Lushington lived here in the summer of 1844 according to the caption.

The Lyndhurst panorama
Perhaps the most remarkable of all the Burrard paintings is a panorama of Lyndhurst, painted from the roof of the old church in 1844.  The painting is eight feet long and shows the village and its high street in immense detail.  In the High Street, individual pedestrians are named, chickens scratch in the dust and horses graze in the fields.  The painting formerly belonged to the Powell family of Brooklands and may well have been a gift from the artist.

In one volume, most of the great houses of Lyndhurst and some in the surrounding villages appear.  The map below indicates the principal Lyndhurst pictures, based on the 6" Ordnance Survey at about the time of Sir Charles's death.