Hereford Bull
William Henry Davis (c.1786 - 1865)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1851 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
559 x 667 mm (22 x 26 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609105
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Hereford Bull by William Henry Davis (c.1786 – 1865), signed and dated bottom right: WH Davis 1851. Portrait of a Hereford bull, in profile to the right, in landscape setting, distant farm buildings visible on right. One of a set of sixteen portraits by William Henry Davis of Hereford cattle reared at Cronkhill by Richard Noel-Hill, 5th Baron Berwick (1800-1861).
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and dated bottom right: W H Davis 1851 On reverse: Brown 163 High Holborn London
Makers and roles
William Henry Davis (c.1786 - 1865), artist
References
Laing 2009: Alastair Laing, "A Bovine Paucity and Lack of Esteem", National Trust Arts/Buildings/Collections Bulletin, Summer Issue, July 2009, p.3