Edward Herbert, horses & dogs, Silkwood House

Edward Benjamin Herberte
(British, 1857-1893)
Hunters and dogs in the park at Silkwood House, 1886
oil on canvas
signed lower left E.B. Herberte and dated
24 x 36in (61 x 91.5cm)
Footnote:
Silkwood House and its 29 acres near Tetbury was purchased in 2019 by Forestry England and Friends of Westonbirt and added to the National Arboretum.

Provenance:
Sold Christie's, New York, 5 June 1987, lot 158.
Property from the Estate of Keith McCoy, Los Angeles, California.
Condition Report: Framed. 34 x 46. Canvas has been relined and restretched. There are numerous scattered pea-sized and small areas of fluorescence in the sky. There is an area of fluorescence measuring approximately 2 x 1 ½ inches at its widest in the lower right quadrant, just above the standing brown and white horse’s lower back. The painting is heavily varnished.