'Snowdrop', a Grey and 'Nimble', a Bay
Thomas Weaver (Worthen 1774 - Much Woolton 1843)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1811 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
539 x 737 mm (21 1/4 x 29 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271083
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Snowdrop', a Grey Horse and 'Nimble', a Bay by Thomas Weaver (1774-1843), signed and dated: T. Weaver Pinxit, 1811. Double equestrian portrait painting of 'Snowdrop' and 'Nimble' , a grey and a bay, another hunter in a landscape, at the right of a lake. On the left is an urn in a glade.
Provenance
Commissioned by 1st Lord Anson; 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)
Credit line
Shugborough, The Anson Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
1811 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Thomas Weaver (Worthen 1774 - Much Woolton 1843), artist