Tyddesley R. Davis (fl.1826-1857)

Philip Payne, Huntsman to the Duke of Beaufort, on his favourite hunter Cherrington, with hounds in a wooded landscape

细节

Tyddesley R. Davis (fl.1826-1857)
Philip Payne, Huntsman to the Duke of Beaufort, on his favourite hunter Cherrington, with hounds in a wooded landscape
signed and dated 'T.R. Davis 1826' (centre left)
oil on canvas
24 x 31 in. (61 x 78.8 cm.)
in a carved and gilded maratta frame enriched with ribbon twist and husk festoons

刻印

C. Turner, published by Ackermann, 8 December 1826.

拍品专文

Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort succeeded in 1803 and inherited a good, but imperfect pack. He engaged Philip Payne from Cheshire as huntsman of whom it was as remarked 'to appearance a dullest clay was never moulded by nature', but he was patient, observant and scientific as a huntsman and above all a hound breeder. He bred a pack to give 'near palpitation of the heart in the first ten minutes' and made it the best pack in England after the Belvoir.