The National Trust's Picture Hanging Committee (Bobby Gore, Sir Brinsley Ford, Professor Michael Jaffé, Tom Helme and Roddy Thesiger), Kingston Lacy, Dorset
Alec Cobbe (b.1945)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1985
Materials
Acrylic on board
Measurements
298 x 292 mm (11 3/4 x 11 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Wimborne Minster
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257195
Summary
Acrylic painting on board, The National Trust's Picture Hanging Committee, Kingston Lacy, 1985: by Alec Cobbe (b.1945), signed on reverse: A. Cobbe. The seated supervisors are Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999), Francis St John Corbet Gore, CBE (1921-2010) and Professor Michael Jaffé (1923-1997) with Roddy Thesiger and Tom Helme, judging colour trials for the background of the 'Judgement of Solomon' in the Dining Room. An interlude in the dining room, while a painter mixes colours for the background of the great painting of the 'Judgement of Solomon'. Furniture and chandelier are shrouded in winter case-covers.
Provenance
Commissioned by the National Trust's Foundation for Art,1985
Makers and roles
Alec Cobbe (b.1945), artist