Girl standing in a Landscape holding a Newborn Lamb
manner of Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 - Bath 1847)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1815 - 1882
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
171 x 121 mm (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 792012
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Girl Standing in a Landscape Holding a Newborn Lamb, in the manner of Thomas Barker of Bath (Pontypool 1769 – Bath 1847). A little girl in a white shift and red skirt stands, cradling the creature in her arms, in a rural landscape with a cottage on the left and a tree on the right.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of inheritance tax and transferred to the National Trust under the terms of the will of Mrs Christopher Hussey (1907-2006)
Credit line
Scotney Castle, The Hussey Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 - Bath 1847), artist previously catalogued as style of Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), artist