Cupid
Isaac Pocock (Bristol 1782 – Maidenhead 1835)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1806 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
760 x 650 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485144
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Cupid by Isaac Pocock (Bristol 1782 – Maidenhead 1835), 1806. Full-length cupid, naked, winged, turned to the right, looking over his shoulder at the spectator, kneeling, holding a branch of ivy (?) in his right hand, Background of trees and shrubs to the left, distant horizon to the right.
Provenance
Recorded at No. 4, Grosvenor Place in 1847 and at Petworth in 1856.By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Makers and roles
Isaac Pocock (Bristol 1782 – Maidenhead 1835), artist