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Orphan of the Storm & Silky, or ‘Waiting for Orders’. Gallery, Cragside, Northumberland
An orphaned lamb turns its head towards us plaintively, left vulnerable to the bleak winter weather. Its little form stands out against the brooding clouds and the body of its deadmother lying amid the snow. This is one of a number of paintings at Cragside painted by Henry Hetherington Emmerson in the 1870s.
Oil painting on canvas, ‘Orphan of the Storm’, by Henry Hetherington Emmerson (Chester-le-Street 1831 – Cullercoats 1895), signed and dated 1875. A dead sheep and an orphan lamb in a snowy landscape.
Oil painting on canvas, Silky, or ‘Waiting for Orders’, by Henry Hetherington Emmerson (Chester-le-Street 1831 – Cullercoats 1895), signed and dated, bottom left: H H Emmerson 1874. A portrait of a dog, Lord Armstrong’s favourite Border Collie, lying on a stony hillside, its head down in an alert position.
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