Selim, the Marquess of Londonderry's Bay Hunter in a Landscape
James Barenger (London 1780 – London 1831)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1827 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
356 x 432 mm (14 x 17 in)
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Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1221369
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Selim, Viscount Castlereagh's Bay Hunter in a Landscape, James Barenger (London 1780 – London 1831), signed lower right: J. Barenger and inscribed and dated 1827 on reverse. Oil painting on canvas, 'Selim', a Horse belonging to Frederick, Viscount Castlereagh, later 4th Marquess of Londonderry (1805 - 72), in a Landscape. This painting hung for a period in the Drawing Room at Mount Stewart, noted in Lord Powerscourt's "History of the Stags' Heads, Pictures etc at Mount Stewart, Newtownards", 1898: "In the drawing-room are also two portraits of his horses, 'Selim' and 'Pacha' at the time when he was a young dandy in London and went under the name of "Young Rapid", Lord Westmoreland the Ambassador, being "Old Rapid"." Lord Powerscourt was the step-son of Frederick, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013
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
On the reverse: PREPARED BY / ROBERSON & MILLER / 51 LONG ACRE LONDON / SELIM. / F. Visct. Castlereagh. / 1827 Lower right: signed: J. Barenger Reverse: 1827
Makers and roles
James Barenger (London 1780 – London 1831), artist