A Chat with the Milkmaid
John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1854 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 x 660 mm (24 x 26 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 22850
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Chat with the Milkmaid by John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865), signed and dated J. F. Herrin.Snr./1854. An indoor scene with cow, calf, man, woman, cat and pails of milk.
Provenance
Bought by George Abraham Gibbs, later 1st Baron Wraxall, from F, Newcombe, Bristil, in 1910; 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: Inscribed 'Chat with a milkmaid/ by Herring and Baxter' (on an old label on the stretcher). Verso: Written on frame B1795 J.F. Herring Senr. D1865.
Makers and roles
John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865), publisher