Three Spaniels putting up a Brace of Mallard
George Armfield (1808 - 1893)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1828 - 1893
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
343 x 343 mm. (13 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.)
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515745
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Three Spaniels putting up a Brace of Mallard by George Armfield (1808-1893), signed and dated indistinctly G Arm... 18..,Landscape setting, long grasses and tree stumps; three spaniels two black and tan, one dark brown/black, two on the right, one on the left, beneath stumps of two trees, all look upwards to the centre where two mallard ducks are flying; in the foreground is a pool of water and some rocks and vegetation.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed and dated : G.Armfield 18..
Makers and roles
George Armfield (1808 - 1893), artist