The Artist grinding his Colours
Robert Trewick Bone (London 1790 - 1840)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1815 - 1840 (death of artist)
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
368 x 318 mm (14 1/2 x 12 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732238
Summary
Oil painting on board, The Artist grinding his Colours by Robert Trewick Bone (London 1790 - 1840), circa 1815 - 1840, signed on bottom strut of easel R.T.Pinxit 1815 [?]. The artist is grinding colours at a small table on the right. In front of him is his easel, with his palette hanging from it, and on it a small whole-length portrait of a woman in black walking outdoors with a dog. Behind him is a painted nude and a painted landscape and above, on the shelf is a row of plaster-casts. It includes the Apollo Belvedere, the Farnese Hercules, Sleeping Bacchante, Laocoön, Menalaus and Patroclus and Apollino[?]. The Sleeping Bacchante is the only cast not after an Antique sculpture, but instead after an anonymous model (sometimes attributed to Falconet), of which there are bronzes of different sizes; an example of the larger is in the Wallace Collection (S.214); an example of the smaller was exhibited in The French Bronze: 1500 to 1800, Knoldler & Co, New York, 1968, No.69.
Provenance
Acquired by Richard Colt Hoare 2nd Bt (1758 – 1838) in 1815 and thence by descent. Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Robert Trewick Bone (London 1790 - 1840), artist