A Bay Hunter in a Landscape
Edwin Cooper (Bury St Edmunds 1785 - Norwich 1833)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1827 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
620 x 800 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290349
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Bay Hunter in a Landscape by Edwin Cooper (Bury St Edmunds 1785 - Norwich 1833), signed, lower left, 'Edwin Cooper Pinx' and dated 1827. A bay hunter, facing right, is shown standing in a landscape. He has a docked mane and tail and one white rear fetlock. Behind him a wooden fence runs down a hill towards a lake. A blue-grey sky is painted above. (Inventory card) Edwin Cooper was an East Anglian artist and therefore local to Sir George Crewe's father-in-law, the Rev. Thomas Whittaker of Harleston in Norfolk, whom Sir John used to visit. (House Guide, last revised 1996)
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
Edwin Cooper Pinx 1827 (lower left)
Makers and roles
Edwin Cooper (Bury St Edmunds 1785 - Norwich 1833), artist