Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the 1900s.
Title “Historic Empress Sisi of Austria At Meath Hunt Hunting Party Ireland Outside Summerhill House With Lord Langford, George Middleton a.d.c to the Lord Lieutenant of Earl Spencer Master Of Hunt & Captain Robert Fowler” By Gilbert Scott Wright .
Oil on canvas.
Set in a recent decorative gold leaf finish spoon profile Larson Juhl gilt wood frame with ar70 front protective glass which rather enhances this work further.
Having vivid colours, reds, browns, whites, greys, greens & black hue colours.
Circa 1900 end of Victoria era.
Signed by the known English artist Gilbert S Scott.
In our opinion this is among his finest earlier works.
Subject hunting scene depicting Empress Sisi of Austria she loved riding and hunting and in 1879 to 1880 she came to Ireland in County Meath to stay with Lord Langford at Summerhill House. Hercules Edward ‘Paddy’ Langford, fourth Baron Langford, leased Summerhill House to the Empress of Austria as a hunting lodge. This painting shows her dressed in black with a bowler hat walking out & down steps of the large stone side entrance wall of Summerhill house, with tall trees around & she is stroking 1 of the hound dogs & holding her riding whip & being greeted by Lord Langford dressed in his traditional red coat with white trousers & black boots, he has taken his top hat as a gesture of great respect to her. The hunting party has gattered with large group of scent hounds & other riders with George Middleton a.d.c to the Lord Lieutenant of Earl Spencer & master of the Hunt Robert Fowler who are also showing courtesy to her. Lady Sisi Bay horse is ready waiting for her to mount. Lady Sisi later said this was her happiest moment of her life.
An impressive display size with the frame being 67 cm high and 82 cm wide.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
Biography of the artist Gilbert Scott Wright (24 July 1880 – 1958) was an English painter. Like his older brother George Wright, he painted hunting and coaching scenes, as well as horse portraits. Wright was one of a family of seven children, five of whom were professional artists, either principally as painters, or as illustrators. Wright was born in Leeds on 24 July 1880, and baptised on 29 June 1881. His father was George Edward Wright (24 February 1834 – 11 November 1916), an accountant and Elizabeth Scott (c. 1840 – 31 May 1916), the daughter or Thomas Scott (born c. 1804), variously a railway engineer and a commission agent. George Edward and Elizabeth were married on 22 August 1859 in St' Jude's Church at Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. George Edward Wright and Elizabeth Scott had seven children, five of whom were professional artists, but none of whom has any formal training in art:
Like the rest of his family, Wright had no formal training in art. He probably learned to paint from his brother George Wright who was twenty years his senior in producing paintings of sporting and coaching scenes for calendars and other work. They collaborated until about 1925. In his early teens Wright fell under the influence of Samuel Edmund Waller, and at the age of 13 began to produce paintings of handsome Georgian gallants, many on horseback, either courting or eloping with their lady loves. In 1900 he exhibited How he won the VC7 at the Royal Academy. The painting was soon purchased by a print publisher, and this led to many commissions.
Wright produced illustrations for a number of publications including a two-page spread of a Lion in the Path for The Graphic in 1910 a two-page colour hunting illustration for the Illustrated London News in 1913, a colour illustration for The Bystander in 1930. He also produced prints for
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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Oil Painting Empress Sisi of Austria at Meath Hunt with Lord Langford
