A Breezy Day on the English Coast, St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
Thomas Creswick (Sheffield 1811 - London 1869)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1866 (exh RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1156 x 1829 mm (45 1/2 x 72 in)
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 22852
Summary
Oil painting on unlined canvas, A Breezy Day on the English Coast, St Michael's Mount, Cornwall by Thomas Creswick, RA (Sheffield 1811 – London 1869), signed (lower centre) by T. Creswick, exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1866. A painting of horse-riders and wagons on sands with St. Michael's Mount behind. Also exhibited at the South Kensington Museum and Bristol City Art Gallery.
Provenance
Samuel Mendel, Manley Hall Collection, Manchester; sale, March 15ff, 1875 (21 days) (£1,500); Baron Albert Grant (né Albert Gottheimer) (1831-1899) of Kensington House; Baron Grant's sale in 28th April 1877, lot 167, bought Agnew's for £1,417.10; acquired by Matilda Blanche Gibbs (1817 - 1887) by 1878 and thence by descent; 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: and inscribed 'No. 1/T. CRESWICK' (on the stretcher). Verso: Inscribed Messrs Agnews & Sons/105/Mount St on a old label on the reverse
Makers and roles
Thomas Creswick (Sheffield 1811 - London 1869), artist previously catalogued as by Richard Ansdell, RA (Liverpool 1815 – Farnborough 1885), artist