Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 26 × 68 inches · 660 × 1730 mm
  • Signed: p. Tillemans. F., lower right

Collections

  • Lord George Augustus Cavendish (d.1794), Holker Hall, Lancashire, where recorded in the Drawing Room in a list of 1776 ('The sizes of pictures at Holker that are in any way fit for hanging up');
  • George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington (1754-1834), nephew of the above, by descent;
  • William, 2nd Earl of Burlington and 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808-1891), grandson of the above, by descent;
  • Lord Richard Cavendish (1871-1946), at Holker Hall, grandson of the above, by descent, 2012.

Literature

  • J. Harris, The Artist and the Country House, London, 1979, p. 233, no. 251; R. Raines, 'Peter Tillemans, Life and Work, with a list of representative paintings', in The Walpole Society, XLVII, 1978-1980, p. 48, no. 25.

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama