Eight Circular Foxhunting Scenes (I. Huntsman and Hounds; 2. Hunting in Covert; 3. Full Cry; 4. The Kill; 5. Earth Stopping at Night; 6.Three Hounds resting; 7. Hound in a Landscape; 8. Fox in Landscape)
John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1815 - 1865
Materials
Oil on canvas laid on board
Measurements
Nos.1-4: 127 mm (5 in); nos. 5-8 66.2 mm (3 in) diameter
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446676
Summary
Oil painting on canvas laid on board (circular, in one frame), Eight Foxhunting Scenes (1.Huntsman and Hounds; 2.Hunting in Covert; 3.Full Cry; 4.The Kill; 5.Earth Stopping at Night; 6.Three Hounds Resting; 7.Hound in a Landscape; 8.Fox in Landscape) by John Frederick Herring Snr. (Surrey 1795 - Meopham 1865). A set of eight circular paintings framed together.
Provenance
Anonymous [Mrs. Carr] sale, Christie's, 26 May 1930, lot 75: bought by Martin for Lord Bearsted for 140 gns. [lot 74, four more hunting scenes and kennels - but not round - in one frame, was from the same vendor, but Lord Bearsted was the underbidder: it went to Parsons for 78 gns.]
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865), artist