A View on the River Dart, Devon, with a Man with a Gun
Edmund Ward Gill (1794 - 1854)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1846 (label on reverse)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
290 x 420 mm
Place of origin
Devon
Order this imageCollection
Benthall Hall, Shropshire
NT 509851
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A View on the River Dart, Devon with a Man with a Gun by Edmund Ward Gill (1794-1854), inscribed: View on the River Dart, Devon. Edmund Gill pinxt 1846 (written in ink on paper label pasted on back). A man with a gun and two dogs walking on a wooded hill over looking the River Dart.
Provenance
Painted in 1846 by Edward Ward Gill. Owned by Mary Clementina Benthall (1879-1960) and recorded in the 1957 list of pictures, furniture etc suggested for retention at Benthall Hall by the National Trust. Transferred to the ownership of the National Trust with the contents of Benthall Hall in the Deed Of Gift made by Mary Clementina Benthall and dated 8th August 1958. Recorded in the Inventory Of National Trust Property At Benthall Hall dated 1st October 1963.
Credit line
Benthall Hall, The Benthall Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: View on the River Dart, Devon. Edmund Gill pinxt 1846 (written in ink on paper label pasted on back)
Makers and roles
Edmund Ward Gill (1794 - 1854), artist