A Bay Hunter and Groom outside Shugborough
William Webb (Tamworth 1790 - Melton Mowbray 1856)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1822 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
667 x 972 mm (26 1/4 x 38 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271079
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Bay Hunter and Groom outside Shugborough by William Webb (Tamworth 1780 - Melton Mowbray 1856), signed and dated: W. Webb 1822. Equestrian portrait painting of a bay hunter saddled, standing in profile to the left and held by a groom outside the portico at Shugborough.
Provenance
Commssioned by the 2nd Lord Anson, 1822; transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960)
Marks and inscriptions
1822 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
William Webb (Tamworth 1790 - Melton Mowbray 1856), artist