Edward Trafford Nicolls, later Edward Trafford Trafford (Liverpool 1783 – Stone 1839)
attributed to Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1814
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2410 x 1500 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire
NT 869211
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Edward Trafford Nicolls, later Edward Trafford Trafford (Liverpool 1783 – Stone 1839), attributed to Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), circa 1814. A full-length portrait of gentleman in a landscape, turned towards proper right, wearing a grey coat and trousers and yellow waistcoat, holding an upturned rifle, with upturned hat at the proper left foot. A white and black hunting dog sniffs a dead hare and cock pheasant in the right foreground, a black dog seated at left looks up towards its master, while a third dog is seated in the grass at left. A pair with NT 869210, a portrait of Ellen Nicolls (née Worsey) (Stafford 1788 – Stone 1815) and Sarah Nicolls, later Trafford, later Joule (Stone 1809 - Stone 1848), wife and daughter of the present sitter. Edward Trafford Nicolls changed his name to Edward Trafford Trafford by royal decree in 1823. The family seat was at Swithamley (now spelled Swythamley), Staffordshire.
Provenance
Presumably commissioned by Edward Trafford Nicolls, later Edward Trafford Trafford (1783-1839); thence by descent to Sarah Joule (1809-48), his daughter, see National Archives, PROB 11/1930/55, will of Edward Trafford Trafford, 15 February 1839, '2 large portraits of himself and his wife [left] to his daughter, Sarah Joule'; Ellen Wynne (died 1896), daughter of Sarah Joule, see Staffordshire Record Office, 4974/B/5/8, letter from Mabella Worsey (second wife of Edward Trafford Trafford) to Philip Brocklehurst of Swythamley Hall, 2 December 1872, 'Yes there is a full length Oil Painting of Mr Trafford, taken in his Shooting Costume, Dog, Gun etc at his granddaughter Mrs Wynn’s [sic] Field House near Stone.'; Thomas Trafford Wynne (son of Ellen Wynne); William Watkin Wynne; Ellen Margaret Wynne Newton (1905-92); bequeathed to the National Trust by the estate of Margaret Newton, 1994.
Makers and roles
attributed to Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Philip Reinagle RA (Scotland 1749 – Chelsea 1833), artist