Lot 202: Charles Towne (Wigan 1763-1840 London) The favourite hunters of Mrs Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden Hall, Lancashire,... oil on canvas 30 x 35 ¾ in. (76.2 x 102.2 cm.)

Charles Towne (Wigan 1763-1840 London)
The favourite hunters of Mrs Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden Hall, Lancashire, in a wooded coastal landscape
signed and dated 'Chas. Towne / Pinx: / 1819' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 35 ¾ in. (76.2 x 102.2 cm.)

Presumably commissioned by Robert Townley Parker (1793-1879), of Cuerden Hall, Preston, Lancashire, and by descent in the family to his great-nephew,
Captain Thomas Arthur Tatton, J.P. (b. 1893), Cuerden Hall, Preston; Christie's, London, 20 November 1936, lot 32 (145 gns. to F. Partridge).
with Richard Green, London, 1979, from whom acquired in 1987 by,
Sir Ralph, later Lord Halpern (b. 1938), and Lady Halpern, London and Surrey.