A Hunter and Retriever outside Shugborough Stables
William Webb (Tamworth 1790 - Melton Mowbray 1856)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1824 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
594 x 740 mm (23 3/8 x 29 1/8 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271088
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Hunter and Retriever outside Shugborough Stables by William Webb (Tamworth 1780 - Melton Mowbray 1856), signed and dated: W. WEBB 1824. View of the stableyard at Shugborough, a brown bay hunter saddled for a lady standing in profile to the left beside a dog, and a groom leading out two more hunters, to the right, through the satbel archway.
Provenance
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
1824 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
William Webb (Tamworth 1790 - Melton Mowbray 1856), artist