Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916)

Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916)

Snipe and Berried Foliage

seven painted ceiling panels on canvas for the Drawing Room at Pownall Hall, Cheshire, one snipe panel and six berried foliage panels,

unsigned

62.5 x 62.5cm (each panel), (7)

Provenance

Pownall Hall in Wilmslow, Cheshire

Victorian Paintings, Drawing and Watercolours, Sotheby's lot 161, 12th November 1992

Private collection.

Literature

T Raffles Davison A Modern Country Home (a Review of Pownall Hall), the Art Journal, 1891, pages 329, 325, Drawing Room illustrated page 333.

Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard The Buildings of England, Cheshire, pages 385-386.

Stuart Evans & Jean Liddiard Arts and Crafts Pioneers - The Hobby Horse Men and their Century Guild, page 114 and 115 for larger figural panels from the Drawing room, painted by Selwyn Image, illustrated. On page 120 figure 5.34 is a photograph, circa 1890, showing the squared ceiling.

Catalogue notes

Pownall Hall in Wilmslow, Cheshire was built circa 1830-1835. In 1866 a plan of refurbishment was begun by the brewer Henry Boddington and his associate, William Ball. For the interior decoration of the house they called upon members of the progressive Century Guild: Herbert Horne, Arthur Haygate Mackmurdo and Selwyn Image. The ceiling was divided into square panels decorated with hare, snipe and fruit enclosed within scrolls of citron leaves. After 1884 Horne became editor of the Century Guild's magazine, The Hobby Horse, which influenced William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement.