A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1840
Materials
Oil on canvas
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271117
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire by Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), 1840. With portraits of the Earl of Lichfield, mounted on a pony, the Earl of Sefton, Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Anson and keepers, with dogs and game cart. In a gilt frame. [TA:CHECK, ?DUPLICATE = SHG.P.047]
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)
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), artist