page_title: William Taylor Copeland
section_title: An artistic legacy
hierarchical_section_title: William Taylor Copeland / An artistic legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: j f herring hunt
context_page_description: William Taylor Copeland, MP, Alderman was a British businessman and politician who served as Lord Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament.
context_section_description: "The Hunt" collection, first introduced in 1930 as everyday earthenware, was inspired in 1830, when W.vT. Copeland, of Spode, offered the great sporting artist John Frederick Herring Sr. a house on his Essex estate. The relationship between the two men resulted in a collection of paintings. Most of the scenes used for "The Hunt" are taken from these works. The title of the featured painting is on the backside along with the official royal insignia of Spode, encapsulating its English heritage. More than two centuries of tableware tradition and the sporting life are represented in each piece.
  J. F. Herring, born in 1795, undertook commissions to paint horses for titled owners. In about 1830 he was in debt and W.T. Copeland took up the bills and offered the artist a house on his estate in Essex. He also commissioned Herring to paint his own racehorses, pictures of fox hunting and scenes of rural life incorporating horses. It is from these paintings that most of the scenes for "The Hunt" are derived, although some were derived from the work of other sporting artists.
caption: J F Herrings Hunt. First part of a series of paintings commissioned by W.T Copeland
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