Thomas Butler

PORTRAIT OF A HUNTER BY THOMAS BUTLER

London 1755

Measurements: Inc. Frame: Height 47” (119.5cm) Width 57” (145cm)

Without Frame: Height 40” (101.5cm) Width 50” (127cm)

Oil on canvas.

Inscribed lower left, ‘TOM / A Hunter of  / Barth; Rich: / Baraby’s esq. / Taken from the / Life and Painted at The Butlers Pall Mall London 1755.’

This portrait depicts Bartholomew Richard Baraby’s favourite hunter, Tom. Bartholomew Baraby was appointed high sheriff of Herefordshire in 1739. Baraby was a wealthy landowner and avid hunter, residing at Brockhampton Park.