A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire

Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878). Oil painting on canvas, A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey Staffordshire by Sir Francis Grant RA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), 1840. A full-length portraits of the Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield (1795-1854), mounted on a white pony, the Earl of Sefton, seated, the Earl of Uxbridge, later 2nd Earl of Anglesey, behind the bailiff or gamekeeper, James Gee ( b. 1785), Viscount Melbourne and Thomas George Anson, Viscount Anson, later 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892) as a boy of about 15, seated on the ground in front, and keepers with dogs and game cart. Ranton Abbey was a Lichfield proeprty in Satffordshire. Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire