Hereford Bull
William Henry Davis (c.1786 - 1865)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1856 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
521 x 673 mm (20 ½ x 26 ½ in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609115
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Hereford Bull: 1856, by William Henry Davis (c.1786 – 1865), signed and dated, bottom right: WH Davis / 1856. Portrait of a Hereford bull, in profile to the right. In landscape setting, a tree visible to the left, farm buildings to the right and clump of wild flowers in the foreground. 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
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1947 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 1856 CHARLES ROBERSON..... On paper label pasted to reverse of canvas: 189
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