Two East Anglian Gentlemen with a Pointer
Francis Hayman, RA (Exeter 1708 – London 1776)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1728 - 1776
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
East Anglia (England)
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446675
Caption
The two gentlemen in this portrait were formally identified as Hambleton Custance and Thomas Nuthall. They were identified as such because of the formal similarity to a portrait of them, also by Hayman, in the Tate. The resemblance is, however, more sartorial rather than physical.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Two East Anglian Gentlemen with a Pointer, by Francis Hayman (1708-1776). Two full-length portraits: a middle-aged man seated at the left on a stone beneath a tree, a flask in his left hand, a staff leaning against his right shoulder. He has on a powdered wig and wears a tricorne hat, a grey-brown coat, white waistcoat, white stockings and buckled shoes. His companion, a young man striding forward on the right, carries a gun over the crook of his left arm, while with his right he gestures to his seated companion, he wears a green coat, white waistcoat, buff-coloured breeches, white stockings and buckled shoes, he has natural hair and wears a tricorne hat; a pointer dog stands between the two figures and looks up at the younger man. There is a large tree on the left and a distant landscape view on the right with a blue cloudy sky.
Provenance
Collection of A. H. Skinner, Sanderstead, Surrey; with Tooth in 1945; from whom acquired by Lord Bearsted in December, 1945; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death, in 1948
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Francis Hayman, RA (Exeter 1708 – London 1776), publisher
