A Hen and Six Chicks before a Cottage
manner of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerset c.1660 - London 1717)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1729
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
745 x 610 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401290
Caption
Cradock was self-taught, and specialised in fowl-pieces in the manner of Melchior d’Hondecoeter. He set out as a house-painter, working at the whim of the nobility and gentry. As an artist, he preferred to work for dealers, or to be paid by the day. He had a pupil called Coniers, or Conyers, who could have painted something such as this.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Hen and Six Chicks before a Cottage, manner of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerton, nr. Ilchester c.1660 – London 1717). A hen is surrounded by playful chicks and sits next to a bowl with farm building at right back and a tree at left back. Was in Stone Corridor - West Wall.
Makers and roles
manner of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerset c.1660 - London 1717), artist