Royal Gazette: Prized painting added to BNT collection
The Bermuda National Trust has added a painting by a revered Bermudian artist to its collection.
The 1927 work by Hereward Watlington depicts Cluster Cottage, a BNT grade-one listed building on St Mary’s Road in Warwick.
The building belongs to the trust and is leased as a private residence.
Charlotte Andrews, the charity’s head of cultural heritage, shared the trust’s excitement about the nearly 100-year-old artwork.
Dr Andrews told The Royal Gazette: “This new acquisition to the trust’s collection is lovely to look at, but also beautifully expresses heritage as a dynamic process that connects people, places and things.
“This single object combines local architectural and artistic traditions and reveals relationships between the donating family, the artist, and many other trust collections.”
She added: “More heritage will be created as we discover other connections to the piece through curatorial research and community responses.”
In a recent newsletter, the BNT said that the building dated to at least 1727 and featured in the Warwick volume of the Bermuda’s Architectural HeritageSeries.
The painting was given to the trust by a member of the family of Harry Croyle Curtis and his wife, Elizabeth Walker Curtis.