At the Shoemaker's Shop
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1825
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
635 x 511 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207845
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, At the Shoemaker's Shop, British (English) School, circa 1825. Edward Pattison's (sign over door at the back of the shop: PATTISON) shoe shop opened at 129 Oxford Street in 1820, moving in 1835 to 74 Oxford Street, where it remained until the 1860's. Around 1825 the fashion for plain black shoes, such as the pair that the lady is trying on, was imported from France, much to the dismay of most English shoemakers.
Provenance
Leicester Galleries, London, from whom bought by Captain Bambridge, 1941; bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist