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Sited on its own peninsular Trelissick has had five previous owners, it
has been revised experienced prosperity, collapse and change. Donat-
ed to the National Trust by Ida Copeland in 1955 afer the death of her
son Geoffrey.

A house has been here since 1750, when a two- storey villa was built
by John Lawrence. In 1805, the estate was purchased by Ralph Allen
Daniell, he enlarged the park and added a new pleasure grounds and
kitchen garden. In 1825, Ralph’s son remodelled the house in a Grecian
style. Due to the building costs and the prevalent slump in mining of
1832 he was bankrupted, he sold the Trelissick to Lord Falmouth. The
Gilberts were next to own Trelissick when in 1844 John Davies Gilbert
purchased the estate. Trelissick’s House and garden became the prop-
erty of Leonard Cunliffe a banker in 1928 when he bought the freehold
when the estate had been divided in 1913. In 1937, Cunliffe’s step
daughter Ida Copeland inherited Trelissick, Ida and her husband
Ronald transformed the garden and continued to evolve the planting
throughout their time at Trelissick.
Whilst sketching within the house, I was taken by the Music room
Interior, especially the positioning of the piano its relation to the
window that provided views out across the parkland to the sea
beyond. At the time a pianist, one of the room guides was playing
Shubert which created a timeless ambiance. Two sisters were listening
to the music, and one of the sisters was particularly interested in the
playing. The pianist invited her to take over and try the piece for her-
self, whilst she was playing, I sketched the two young women. The
composition explores the notion of being lost in the music firstly the
sister playing lost in concentration, and the other in listening whilst The Music Room, Trelissick Estate,
gazing out to the scene beyond. The music connects the inner space of Oil on panel x inches
the room, the experience of the notes being played and the expanse of
the outer world beyond. The painting evokes the sense of time past
when such activities were common place by the various past owners of
Trelissick.