Game Larder with Dead Game, an Old Woman plucking a Partridge and a Boy
Benjamin Blake (1757 – 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1819 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
457 x 616 mm (18 x 24 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597957
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Game Larder with Dead Game, an Old Woman plucking a Partridge and a Boy by Benjamin Blake (fl.1807–d.c.1828), signed and dated 'B Blake 1819'. A still life of birds and game in a larder on the right. An old woman, on the right, who is plucking a partridge, has a child sitting on a stool beside her on her left.
Provenance
Previously with Vicars; bought and bequeathed by Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart (1871-1951) to the National Trust and transferred to Montacute House, after the death of Lady Stewart, 1960
Credit line
Montacute House, The Malcolm Stewart Bequest (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: B Blake 1819 Recto: Small gilt tablet affixed to bottom centre of frame inscribed: B. Blake 1819
Makers and roles
Benjamin Blake (1757 – 1830), artist
References
Montacute House, Somerset, 1991 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, p.62 "LORD CURZON'S BEDROOM PAINTINGS Still Life: An Old Woman plucking a Partridge This London artist is best known for his landscapes and studies of dead game, reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Benjamin Blake, signed and date 1819." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , p.62 "LORD CURZON'S ROOM PAINTINGS Still Life: An Old Woman plucking a Partridge This London artist is best known for his landscapes and studies of dead game, reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Benjamin Blake, signed and date 1819." Montacute House, Somerset, 2004-2006 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 2000, revised 2004, reprinted 2005, 2006, p.50 "LORD CURZON'S ROOM PAINTINGS Still Life: An Old Woman plucking a Partridge This London artist is best known for his landscapes and studies of dead game, reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Benjamin Blake, signed and date 1819."