A Group of Ponies in the Park
John E. Ferneley (Thrussington 1782 - Melton Mowbray 1860)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1850 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1150 x 1810 mm
Place of origin
Melton Mowbray
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290360
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Group of Ponies in the Park by John E. Ferneley (Thrussington 1782 – Melton Mowbray 1860), signed and dated, lower right: J. Ferneley/Melton Mowbray/1850. A group of five ponies is shown in a park, with deer in the left background and two people riding along a track in the right background. Three bay horses stand under a tree with a grey horse and a small skewbald pony. (Inventory card) This picture shows Ferneley at his most romantic although it appears to be an imaginary ensemble, the equine subjects were all portraits of animals belionging to Sir John Harpur Crewe 9th Bt. and painted at Calke. Isabel Harpur Crewe wrote 'Pictures of horses over the mantlepiece including little white pony saved from a wreck at Aldborough' (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 with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1985)
Marks and inscriptions
J. Ferneley/Melton Mowbray/1850 (inscribed lower right)
Makers and roles
John E. Ferneley (Thrussington 1782 - Melton Mowbray 1860), artist