These large paintings of rustic folk going quietly about their business are key to the congenial atmosphere that the designers Mewés and Davis provided for Mrs Greville in this room. Large expanses of sky and cloud introduce light and air, while trees twisting up the vertical compositions bring a sense of elegant, sinuous movement. Derived from pastoral rococo models, they were probably originally installed in a similar room in France, or more likely somewhere in the Low Countries, where such painted decorations were particularly popular in the 18th century.
