LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.76 in. (121.30 cm.) (height) by 42.76 in. (108.60 cm.) (width)

Condition:

In a contemporary grained pine frame, apparently designed to be integrated into panelling

Literature:

A. Oswald, 'Linley Hall, Shropshire -II, The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper More.', Country Life , 14 September 1961, p. 559, illustrated in the dining room. M.E. Burkett, Christopher Steele 1733-1767 of Acre Walls, Egremont, George Romney's Teacher , Skiddaw, 2003, p. 217, no. 32, illustrated

Provenance:

Presumably originally fitted in a Mytton family house, probably Cleobury North or Shipton, Shropshire, and by descent to the Mores of Linley with whom the family was connected by marriage and to whom both estates had passed by the latter 19th century