'The Angel's Love'
St George Hare (Limerick 1857 – London 1933)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1908
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1702 x 1130 mm (67 x 44 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732350
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'The Angel's Love' by St George Hare (Limerick 1857 - London 1933), 1908, signed, bottom left: HARE. Two three-quarter length figures in a landscape, one a winged male angel dressed in white flowing robes with large wings has his left arm around the back of the other, a naked female, possibly Lady Hoare herself, who has her black hair tied around her arms as she looks up at him.
Provenance
From the artist, 1908 and thence by descent; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
St George Hare (Limerick 1857 – London 1933), artist