Huntsmen encouraging Hounds (after Abraham Cooper)
Richard Barrett Davis (Watford 1782 - Kensington 1854)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1802 - 1854
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
178 x 241 mm (7 x 9 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515751
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Huntsmen encouraging Hounds (after Abraham Cooper) by Richard Barrett Davis (Watford 1782 – Kensington 1854). Huntsman riding a brown horse, galloping to the left, huntsman turned away from spectator, his top hand on his right hand, encouraging hunting dogs to left and right and many coming up from behind from a slope, two other huntsman can be seen in the background, one on the left and one on the right. Scrubland with distant horizon, Blue sky with clouds.
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)
Makers and roles
Richard Barrett Davis (Watford 1782 - Kensington 1854), artist after Abraham Cooper (London 1787 - Greenwich 1868), artist