Esq. at Bemfica, near Lisbon, including the Farm House. Engraved By G. Wells. From the original picture by Noël. S/d [1794].

De 50 x60 cm. Emoldurado.

Gravura a água tinta coloração sépia, segundo o desenho executado por Noel. Leves picos de humidade.

De Visme, cujo monopólio ficou ameaçado pelo afastamento do Marquês de Pombal e pela Viradeira de D. Maria I, alugou Monserrate a Wi!liam Beckford, em 1794, e partiu para Inglaterra, no ano seguinte, aí permanecendo enquanto durou o arrendamento, e aí morrendo.

 Gerard de Visme (1725?-1797) a prominent member of the British Factory in Lisbon who made a vast fortune with the contract of diamonds commerce with Brazil. He lived in a sumptuous Quinta at Benfica, in the then outskirts of Lisbon, painted by Noel and from which J. Wells made this engraving. In 1790, he acquired the Monserrate estate, near Sintra, and built a neo-gothic palace at the site of an old chapel which he ordered to be moved to another location. Monserrate was to become famous through William Beckford who hired the estate in 1794 and lived there till 1796. After having left Portugal around 1794, Gerard de Visme lived England at Wimbledon Lodge. His daughter Emily De Visme (?-1883) married General Sir Henry Murray (1784-1860), the son of the 2nd Earl of Mansfield.