A Sleeping Shepherd with Ruins of Kenilworth Castle
Octavius Oakley (Bermondsey 1800 – London 1867)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1811 - 1821 (indistinctly dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1219 x 914 mm (48 x 36 in)
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 21100
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Sleeping Shepherd with Ruins of Kenilworth Castle (after Callcott) by Octavius Oakley (Bermondsey 1800 – London 1867), signed (lower left) O. Oakley f. and indistinctly dated 1811-21. Previously attributed to Augustus Wall Callcott.
Provenance
Bought from DN & EG, £4,000, formerly hanging in London; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: (See note below re disputed attribution). Shield on back - FROST AND REED LTD/ BRISTOL LONDON/CLARE STREET 41 NEW BOND STREET ST W1/ARTISTIC FRAMEMAKERS ESTABLISHED 1808/FINE ART PUBLISHERS PICTURE REPARATION/ No handwritten 7234 DATE handwritten 26.6.51.
Makers and roles
Octavius Oakley (Bermondsey 1800 – London 1867), publisher previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Augustus Wall Calcott, RA (London 1779 - London 1844), publisher