'Rose', a Grey Mare and a Portuguese Hunter
Thomas Weaver (Worthen 1774 - Much Woolton 1843)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1811 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
560 x 740 mm (21 1/4 x 29 1/8 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271081
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Rose', a Grey Mare and a Portuguese Hunter by Thomas Weaver (Worthen 1774 - Liverpool 1843), signed and dated T. Weaver Pt. 1811. Double equestrian portrait of the mare named 'Rose' Lady Anson's favourite mare and the 1st Viscount's Portugese hunter, standing in profile and facing each other, in a landscape.
Provenance
Commissioned by 1st Lord Anson, 1811; 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
1811 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Thomas Weaver (Worthen 1774 - Much Woolton 1843), artist