A Goose with Goslings, Curlews, and other Marsh and Moorland Birds
Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire c.1626 - London 1704)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1673 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
787 x 1610 mm (31 x 63 ⅜ in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140158
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Goose with Goslings, Curlews, and other Marsh and Moorland Birds by Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire c.1626 - London 1704), signed and dated: bottom right corner: F. Barlow 1673. The bank of a stream, with woods on the right and a plain on the left. A goose is swimming in the stream with some of her goslings; two more are on the bank, one on its back, menaced by a curlew. Two snipe and a kingfisher fly above; another kingfisher sits on a twig.
Provenance
Painted and installed as an overdoor in “my Ladys Chamber” in 1673; thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Marks and inscriptions
F. Barlow 1673
Makers and roles
Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire c.1626 - London 1704), artist
References
Waterhouse 1994 Ellis K. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530-1790, Pelican History of Art, Harmondsworth, [1st Pub.1953], 1994 ed., p.81 Whinney and Millar 1957 Margaret Whinney and Olivar Millar, English Art 1625 - 1714, 1957, pp.277-8 Croft-Murray 1962-1970: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537 - 1837 (2 vols), 1962-1970, vol.1, 1962, p.216
