A Girl with a Dove
John Rising (1753 – London 1817)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1773 - 1817
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
743 x 610 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732261
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Girl with a Dove by John Rising (1753 - London 1817). A girl, wearing a red dress with bare shoulders and a green headband, sits half-length in a landscape. She looks towards the right, with her right arm resting on a pedestal and clasping a dove by the feet with her left hand.
Provenance
Acquired by Richard Colt Hoare 2nd Bt (1758 – 1838);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
John Rising (1753 – London 1817), artist