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Overbecks affords spectacular views over the Salcombe Estuary. The home is set in
a 7acre garden filled with exotic and tender plants. palms, salvias and olive trees
growing alongside bananas, agaves and acacias. Positioned on a high vantage point,
the garden is arranged in terraces, each affording a unique view and vantage point of
the surrounding coast and garden.
The painting instils a sense of suspended time, tea has been served at the Upper Ter-
race and where time is allowed to pass by in the warm, summer late afternoon light.
The same vistas can still be experienced today, and a place where one can still enjoy
refreshments.
In 1928 the chemist Otto Overbeck bought “Sharpitor” for his retirement and lived
there until his death in 1937. When he had arranged for the estate to be left to the
National Trust, on the provision that the house and gardens would be renamed
“Overbecks”. Otto Overbeck was one of a long succession of gardening enthusiasts.
that had refined and added to the collection of plants and trees. The palms act as a
visual linkage between various sections of the garden. Many of the chusan palms
were planted by Otto Overbeck in the 1920’s . There are in all eight different varie-
ties with many being self- seeding.

139386 Early Summer Evening
Overbecks, Devon. 301/8 x 601/16 inches -o/c