The Bermuda National Trust has added a painting by a revered Bermudian artist to its collection.

The 1927 work by Hereward Watlington depicts Cluster Cottage, a BNT grade-one listed building on St Mary’s Road in Warwick.

The building belongs to the trust and is leased as a private residence.

Charlotte Andrews, the charity’s head of cultural heritage, shared the trust’s excitement about the nearly 100-year-old artwork.

Dr Andrews told The Royal Gazette: “This new acquisition to the trust’s collection is lovely to look at, but also beautifully expresses heritage as a dynamic process that connects people, places and things.

“This single object combines local architectural and artistic traditions and reveals relationships between the donating family, the artist, and many other trust collections.”

She added: “More heritage will be created as we discover other connections to the piece through curatorial research and community responses.”

In a recent newsletter, the BNT said that the building dated to at least 1727 and featured in the Warwick volume of the Bermuda’s Architectural HeritageSeries.

The painting was given to the trust by a member of the family of Harry Croyle Curtis and his wife, Elizabeth Walker Curtis.

The BNT said it may have been a wedding gift to the couple from Mr Watlington in the late 1920s.

Mr Watlington made major contributions to the trust by buying, restoring and donating iconic Bermudian properties, including Bridge House.

He also created the core of the Bermuda National Gallery by donating a collection of European art — known as the Watlington Collection — under the condition that the works were housed in world-class storage facilities, that included climate, light and temperature control.

The BNT website describes Cluster Cottage as “an early 18th-century house which survives remarkably unaltered as an excellent example of early Bermuda domestic architecture”.

“Parts of the house could date back to as early as the 17th century but the main east/west section probably dates from the early 18th century and the southern wings from the middle of that century.”

The painting can be seen at the BNT’s headquarters at Waterville in Paget from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

• UPDATE: this article has been updated to include information about where the painting is on show