TOBIAS STRANOVER | Two ruffs, a parakeet, a pheasant, a magpie and a pigeon on a stone wall in a park

Reputedly James Hugh Smith-Barry, Earl of Barrymore (1748-1837), Marbury Hall, Cheshire, and by descent at Marbury Hall;

Reputedly Fota House, Ireland;

Anonymous sale, Masham, The Magellan Centre, 20 November 2016, lot 19.

Tobias Stranover was one of the leading emigré decorative painters working in England in the early part of the eighteenth century. His extensive knowledge of the different fruits and birds of the world is widely appreciated: in the present picture, five different types of bird can be identified.