A Groom (Frank Spence) with Two Ponies and Two Greyhounds in a Landscape
John E. Ferneley (Thrussington 1782 - Melton Mowbray 1860)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1837 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
940 x 1300 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290347
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Groom (Frank Spence) with two Ponies and two Greyhounds in a Landscape by John E. Ferneley (Thrussington 1782 – Melton Mowbray 1860), inscribed, lower right: J. Ferneley/Melton Mowbray/1837. A groom with two dark bay ponies and two greyhounds in a landscape. The groom is wearing a top hat, his left hand on the withers of one pony. A white greyhound sits in the centre and a black one runs in from the right side. (Inventory card) Isabel Harpur Crewe indicated that the groom is Frank Spence, Sir John Harpur Crewe's stud groom, with two ponies that belonged to Sir John as a boy. (House Guide, last revised 1996)
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Marks and inscriptions
J. Ferneley/Melton Mowbray/1837 (inscribed lower right)
Makers and roles
John E. Ferneley (Thrussington 1782 - Melton Mowbray 1860), artist