Poultry and Peacocks in a Formal Garden
manner of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerset c.1660 - London 1717)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1729
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
796 x 900 mm
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401292
Caption
Cradock was self-taught, and specialised in fowl-pieces in the manner of Melchior d’Hondecoeter. He set out as a house-painter, working at the whim of the nobility and gentry. As an artist, he preferred to work for dealers, or to be paid by the day. He had a pupil called Coniers, or Conyers, who could have painted something such as this.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Poultry and Peacocks in a Formal Garden in the manner of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerton, nr. Ilchester c.1660 – London 1717). Poultry and peacocks roosting on garden statuary with a balcony and poplars in the distance. Cradock was self-taught, and specialised in fowl-pieces in the manner of Melchior d'Hondecoeter, but always preferred to work for dealers, or to be paid per diem, like the house-painter he set out as, to being at the whim of the nobility and gentry. He had a pupil called Coniers, or Conyers, who could have painted something such as this.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer ( 1906-1969).
Makers and roles
manner of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerset c.1660 - London 1717), artist