Sir John Turner Dryden
William Staveley (fl. 1785 - 1805)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1795
Materials
Oil paint, canvas, giltwood, gesso and glass
Order this imageCollection
Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
NT 494918
Summary
Two oil portraits. L/CAN/P/3a - Three quarter length oil on canvas portrait by William Staveley, dated 1795, of Sir John Turner Dryden leaning against a plinth. Glazed with gilt fillet and gilded gesso and wood frame. L/CAN/P/3b - Half length oil on canvas portrait of unknown old lady in black shawl facing left. Glazed gilt and gesso frame with fillet.
Provenance
On loan as part of the Dryden Discretionary Settlement
Marks and inscriptions
W Stavely 1795 (on reverse)
Makers and roles
William Staveley (fl. 1785 - 1805), artist