Abraham Cooper English, 1787-1868
Portraits of Leopard, a dray horse, and Will Craddock, a servant, belonging to Messrs Barclay Perkins & Co., 1813
Oil on canvas
70 x 89 cm
27 1/2 x 35 1/8 in
27 1/2 x 35 1/8 in
Signed in monogram and dated 1813 lower left
Provenance
commissioned by the partners of the Anchor Brewery, Southwark, and then in the collection of Messrs. Barclay Perkins and co. until that company's merger with Courage & co.; transferred (1960) to their newly- acquired brewery at Reading, by the merger with Simonds & Co.; sold after the closure of the Reading brewery in 1978 to Oscar & Peter Johnson, Lowndes Lodge Gallery from whom acquired by John Blyth Curry Esq., of Upper Woolhampton (as of Simonds Brewery, Reading, and by Philip Reinagle) in 1986; his sale, Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 4th September 2019.