Two Children feeding Chickens
William Shiels, RSA (Berwick 1785 - Edinburgh 1857)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
395 x 290 mm
Place of origin
Scotland
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290403
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Two Children feeding Chickens by William Shiels, RSA (Berwick 1785 - Edinburgh 1857), indistinctly signed. The two children are in a barn. A little girl on the left feeding a hen and chicks and a little boy kneeling on the right. Outside the door is a farmyard with distant figures and a cow.
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)
Makers and roles
William Shiels, RSA (Berwick 1785 - Edinburgh 1857), artist