'Benevente': a Saddled Chestnut Racehorse in a Landscape
James Lynwood Palmer (Market Rasen 1868–Heston 1941)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1919 (signed and dated) - 1919
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
495 x 597 mm (19 1/2 x 23 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1220961
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Benevente': a Saddled Chestnut Racehorse in a Landscape, by James Lynwood Palmer (Market Rasen 1868–Heston 1941), signed and dated Lynwood Palmer / 1919. A portrait of a racehorse in a landscape, turned to the left, with trees on the right.
Provenance
Presumably commissioned by the 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949), and thence by descent to his youngest daughter, Lady Mairi Bury (1921-2009); by whom given to the National Trust in 1976
Credit line
Mount Stewart, The Londonderry Collection (accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left: Lynwood Palmer / 1919 On a plaque, presently placed on top of F637: BENEVENTE 1915 (POLYMELUS - PERMAIN) Owned and bred by 6th Marquess of Londonderry.
Makers and roles
James Lynwood Palmer (Market Rasen 1868–Heston 1941), artist