Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey
Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey
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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April 11, 02:09 PM GMT
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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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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.