Details
JAMES POLLARD (LONDRES 1755-1838)
Les voitures Birmingham Tally-Ho! passant devant Crown Inn, Holloway
signé et daté 'J.Pollard 1826' (en bas, à gauche)
huile sur toile
50 x 74 cm (19 2/3 x 29 1/8 in.)
Provenance
R. Boardman, Boston (selon N. C. Selway, 1965, op. cit. infra).
Neville Carr Selway, de 1960 à 1972 (selon le catalogue d'exposition de 1960, op. cit. infra et N. C. Selway, 1972, op. cit. infra).
Chez Richard Green, Londres ;
Acquis auprès de celui-ci par le père des actuels propriétaires, le 14 octobre 1975.
Literature
A. B. Shone, 'Painter of the Heyday of Coaching. An Exhibition of the Work of James Pollard', Country Life, 23 mai 1963, p. 1197, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 1194.
N. C. Selway, James Pollard. 1792-1867. Painter of the Age of Coaching, Leigh-on-Sea, 1965, p. 27, n°28, reproduit en noir et blanc n. p.
N. C. Selway, The Golden Age of Coaching and Sport as Depicted by James Pollard, Leigh-on-Sea, 1972, p. 25, n°25.
Exhibited
Londres, Frank Partridge & Sons, Autumn Exhibition. English Sporting Paintings, 1er novembre-3 décembre 1960, n°58.
Londres, Ackermann's Galleries, 1963 (selon A. B. Shone, 1963, op. cit. infra).
Engraved
Gravé par Charles Bentley (1806-1854) d'après James Pollard, The Birmingham Tally-Ho! Coaches Passing the Crown at Holloway, 1828.
Further details
JAMES POLLARD (1755-1838), THE BIRMINGHAM TALLY-HO! COACHES PASSING THE CROWN INN, HOLLOWAY, OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AND DATED
The present painting is one of the finest examples of the richly detailed work of James Pollard (1792-1867), who was renowned for his depictions of horses, hounds and stage coaches. Painted in 1826, the main subject of the painting is the Tally-Ho coach, which left the Saracen's Head Inn in London's Holborn every day at 7.45 am to arrive eleven hours later at the Swan Hotel in Birmingham. The use of the stage coaches gradually declined between 1830 and 1850, supplanted by the railway, so Pollard's paintings soon became a symbol of a lost picturesque past.
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