A historic painting of a Berkshire mansion and its owner is set to go on sale.

Dreweatts, a British auction house, will offer a mid-18th century painting of Englefield House in Berkshire, featuring the owner, Powlett Wrighte Junior standing in front of it.

It is set to be offered in Dreweatts' Old Master, British, and European Art sale on October 9.

The oil painting is believed to have been created around 1760, the year Wrighte came into full ownership of the house and its estate.

Wrighte, the son of Powlett and Mary Wrighte, inherited the house and estate after his father passed away in 1741.

He was just two years old at the time and it was held in trust for him until he turned 21.

Wrighte's mother, Mary, who remarried in 1745, would likely have spent much of her time away from Englefield.

It is thought that she would have commissioned a second version of the painting to hang in one of her other homes as a reminder of Englefield and her eldest son.

Wrighte died childless in 1779, leaving the Englefield estate to his uncle, Nathaniel Wrighte.

Nathaniel let the house and estate to Lady Clive, widow of the famous 'Clive of India,' who lived there for several years in the 1780s.

Since then, the house has been architecturally altered more than once, most significantly during the early 19th century when it received Gothic additions.

However, much of the elevation shown in the painting remains today, as does the positioning of the church to the viewer's right.

The painting was created by celebrated English painter and politician Nathanial Dance.

The descendants of Powlett Wrighte are still the owners of Englefield House today.