Stags on the Highlands
James Giles (Glasgow 1801 - Aberdeen 1870)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1820 - 1870
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
600 x 900 mm
Place of origin
Scotland
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290310
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Stags on the Highlands, by James William Giles RSA (Glasgow 1801 – Aberdeen 1870). Red deer in a landscape, several stags with full antlers in the foreground, silhouetted against a yellow evening sky. In the foreground are boulders around a pond with heather beyond. Label stuck on the back - very faded and difficult to decipher; '1899 (?) [not possible] Aberdeen'
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Marks and inscriptions
1899 (?) Aberdeen (label on reverse)
Makers and roles
James Giles (Glasgow 1801 - Aberdeen 1870), artist