Art, literature & history
Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances
1769
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 100.2 x 126.6 cm (39 7/16 x 49 13/16 in.) framed: 120.7 x 146.4 x 7.6 cm (47 1/2 x 57 5/8 x 3 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1952.9.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
George Stubbs. Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances. National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Official collection metadata; attribution follows named catalogue, not an independent authenticity determination. Holdings are not ownership or current display. Museum accessioned painting; no museum-highlight designation or current-display claim. Source Wikidata creator identity matched exactly. Dataset textual dates checked against numeric search dates. Full provenance, inscriptions, terms and catalogue text preserved in the separate research staging record. Attribution: primary Collection credit: Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs in memory of her husband, Charles Stewart Carstairs.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.