John and Josephine Bowes

Portraits of John and Josephine Bowes at the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham.

John Bowes is seated in front of a stone wall, holding a shot gun with dead game to his left and a dog lying at his feet. Streatlam Castle, his ancestral home, is visible in the distance.
  • Title: John Bowes, Esq. (1811-1885)
  • Object number: B.M.300
  • Collection: PAINTINGS
  • Creator: Jacques-Eugene (1815-1908) Feyen
  • Production place: France
  • Date: 1863 – 1863
  • Production period: 19th century
  • School/style: French
  • Object name: French School of Paintings
  • Material: Canvas
  • Technique: Oil
Joséphine Bowes sits at a table on which rest the text of several plays in which she appeared when an actress at the Théâtre des Variétés on the boulevard Montmartre in Paris under the stage name Mademoiselle Delorme. Her dog, Bernadine, lies at her feet.
  • Title: Josephine Bowes, Countess of Montalbo (1825-1874)
  • Object number: B.M.297
  • Collection: PAINTINGS
  • Creator: Antoine (1819-after 1877) Dury
  • Production place: France
  • Date: 1850 – 1850
  • Production period: 19th century
  • School/style: French
  • Object name: French School of Paintings
  • Material: Canvas
  • Technique: Oil