The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
Edwin Cooper
A grey and bay hunter in a landscape
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The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
Edwin Cooper
British, 1785–1833
A grey and bay hunter in a landscape
illegibly signed and dated lower right: [...] / 1805
oil on canvas
unframed: 64.8 x 77 cm.; 25½ x 30¼ in.
framed: 72.6 x 85.6 cm.; 28⅝ x 33¾ in.
Painted for Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854);
Thence by descent.
Probably Thomas Agnew & Sons, Valuation for insurance of the pictures and drawings, the property of the most Honourable the Marquess of Anglesey, at Uxbridge House, St. James' Square, Plas Newydd, and 8 Lees Mews, 2 February 1910, as at 8 Lees Mews, no. 22 (as English School) (Bangor University Archives and Special Collections, PN/IX/3198);
Possibly Lofts & Warner, An inventory and valuation […] at Plas Newydd, Anglesey, 1948, p. 144, as part of the group of equestrian pictures in the large room, or by the centre table (private family archive);
D. Taylor, Edwin Cooper of Beccles 1785–1833, Leigh-on-Sea 1980, p. 53, no. 14.