Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt MP (1788-1850)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
439 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341406
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt MP (1788-1850), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Sir Robert Peel, standing, bare-headed. Right hand, holding speech, on his waistcoat, left on hip. Prime Minister 1834-5 and 1841-6. In 1864 repealed the Corn Laws.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
PEEL (small raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter