Known Paintings

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KNOWN PAINTINGS BY THE RAYNER FAMILY

Right: Edinburgh by Louise Rayner, who had at least 20 of her paintings photographed circa 1890 - this one by "Silvester Parry Photo" (embossed in the bottom right corner). In the 1881 census, Parry was listed as having five assistants and a boy, suggesting a respectable size of business. He was based at Eccleston Ferry, 2-3 miles southeast of Chester on the River Dee.

PLACES AND DATES
Very few paintings have their dates recorded, and some are extremely vague as to the place depicted. If you have knowledge of even a single painting that will add place, date, and any other info (e.g. current location if there is no concern about it being known), please let us know via the email or postal address at the bottom of this screen. Thank you!

OMISSIONS
Most paintings listed below are known because their titles have been published, or prints are on sale in their local area, or the paintings are on the open market and get sold through auctions at intervals. However, others have gone into family and corporate hands (notably art galleries for the towns depicted), and may be missing from this list.

FILING RULES
Alphabetical for each artist, word by word.
Articles ('a', 'an', 'the', etc.) left in place but ignored for filing purposes.
Saint given in form found (St, St., Saint) but all filed as 'Saint'.
Punctuation is erratic in sources, therefore ignored.
Plus our own filing errors!

OTHER NOTES:
@ = approximate, descriptive or added title; probably not the real one.
*2 = two of same title, probably the same painting.
(2) = two of same title, probably different paintings.
[Chester?] = very probably Chester, but not confirmed.
[c.1852] = circa (approximately) 1852.
[before 1877] listed in Clayton, therefore extant in or by 1876.
Paintings are usually watercolour and/or gouache unless marked otherwise, but check for yourself if this is important.

Some paintings have been sold in Europe, sometimes with the titles re-rendered in the local language. These have been returned to English where this was straightforward, but one or two have been left as they were found.

Above: Mono rendition of "St Werburgh Street, Chester" Louise Rayner 16th March 1896

Please Remember: This listing makes no pretence of being a complete catalogue of anyone's work. They are just the titles that could be found in public listings of various kinds. We would welcome additions.

Also note that in three cases below paintings are attributed to Samuel Rayner, not necessarily by him. A number of paintings are also in circulation described (honestly) as "after Louise Rayner". They are not listed here.

ANN RAYNER (engravings)
Matlock Bath on black Ashford marble c.1830	Chatsworth on black Ashford marble c.1830
FRANCES RAYNER
Banqueting Hall, Haddon Hall@ Cathedral in the Mosque at Cordoba [Eastern church, watercolour, 1880, title unknown]	The Old Bridge at Luzerne@ An Old Baronial Hall (oil) The Tomb, 1882 [Dacre monument at Herstmonceaux]
LOUISE RAYNER
The Abbey Gateway, Chester, 1897 Advocates Close, Edinburgh All Saint's Church, Hastings At Lincoln Banqueting Hall, Haddon Hall The Bear and Billet, Lower Bridge Street, Chester Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick [interior] (oil) [before 1877] The Belfry, Harbledown Church, Canterbury (2) The Bell Inn, or Market Place, Ely Bishop Lloyd’s House, Chester [before 1877] Bishop Lloyd's House, Watergate Street, Chester (1) Bishop Lloyd's House, Watergate Street, Chester (2) Bishop Lloyd's House, Watergate Street, Chester, 1912 Bishop Lloyd's Palace, Chester Bootham, York A break from Divisions at Eton College Bridge Street, Chester@ (1) [before 1869] Bridge Street, Chester (2) [1869-73] Bridge Street, Chester (3) [before 1873] Bridge Street, Chester@ (4) [1873-79] Bridge Street, Chester (5) [1873-88] Bridge Street, Chester (6) [1892-1903] Bridge Street, Chester (7) [basket shop, 1892-1910] Bridge Street looking towards Chester Cross, Chester Bridge Street Row East, Chester [1878-1888] Bridge Street, West Side, between Watergate Street and Commonhall St., Chester Bridge Street, West Side, looking north@ [1860s] Brown Gallery chairs, Knole (oil), by 1858? The Brown Gallery, Knole (oil), by 1858 The Brown Gallery, Knole (watercolour) A Busy Market Place [location unknown] A Busy Street [catch-all title, various places] Butter Cross, Ludlow (c.1865) Butter Cross, Winchester Cambridge The Canongate Tollbooth looking up the Royal Mile towards the Castle [Edinburgh?] Canterbury Cathedral (2) The Cartoon Gallery, Knole [before 1877] Castle Street, Salisbury Cathedral Interior [Canterbury], 1868 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel The Chapel of Edward the Confessor, by May 1857 Chapel Street, Guildford c.1880 Chester [shows Watergate Street, looking towards Eastgate] Chester: Bridge Street looking south [1869] Chester Castle from the River Dee [after 1862] Chester, Eastgate Street at the Cross showing St Peter's Church Chester, Watergate street from corner of Crook Street *not Croock Street, as you may find elsewhere Children outside a castle gate Children playing in Graveyard, Edinburgh Castle behind City Street@ [Northgate Chester, looking south c.1880-90] A Cobblestone Street Conway [towards castle, Aberconwy House at right] (1) Conway [towards castle, Aberconwy House at right] (2) # attrib [study?] Christmas Steps, Bristol, 1863 The Close, The Town Gate, Salisbury, 1881 The Conduit, Lincoln 1881 The Cross - East Street {Chester] (1) The Cross - East Street {Chester] (2) The Cross, Winchester Dudley Market Place, c.1870 The East Gate at Warwick Eastgate Row North, Chester Eastgate Street, Chester Eastgate Street near the Cross@, 1890s Edinburgh Edinburgh city of dreams Edinburgh Street Scene with Numerous Figures in a Courtyard An elderly man on a flight of steps outside a castle End of a busy day [Watergate Street, Chester] English Street Scene [i.e. Conduit, Lincoln] Entrance to Jesus College, Cambridge Eton College Chapel European Facades Exterior view of the Eastern Tower of Flint Castle [1882?] Fair Day, South Petherton, Somersetshire [before 1877] The Falcon Cocoa House [Chester] Figures at a Church Doorway Figures by the Fireplace in Haddon Hall, Derbyshire Figures by the Porch at Lincoln Cathedral Figures in a Narrow Lane Figures in Harp Lane, Ludlow Figures outside the West Door of Chester Cathedral Flint Castle. View of the Eastern Tower from the courtyard [1882?] Flower sellers in Bruges Foot of the West Bow, Edinburgh Foregate Street, Chester Friars' Street, Warwick Gamul House, Lower Bridge Street, Chester Gates of Magdelene College, Cambridge [1880s?] God's Providence House, Watergate Street, Chester [before 1861] The Gothic Room The Grass Market, Edinburgh Great St Mary's Church and Market Place, Cambridge Harvie's Almshouses, Duke Street, Chester [before c.1893] Hastings Hawarden Castle Entry, Lower Bridge Street Heriot's hospital from Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh High Street, Dudley The High Street from the West Bow, Edinburgh High Street, Oxford [before 1877] High Street, Salisbury High Street, Windsor Holywell Street, London [before 1877] Horse Guards Parade The Household Cavalry in Peascod Street, Windsor In Lady Betty Germaine’s Bedchamber, Knole. [before 1877] In the Lofts, Knole [before 1877] Inhabitants of a busy Street Interior at Haddon Hall Interior of a Bedroom [before 1877] Interior of Haddon Chapel, Derbyshire (oil) [c.1852] Irongate, Derby (1865) Irongate, Derby (2) [c.1870?] James the First’s bedroom, Knole [before 1877] John Knox's House, Edinburgh The Keep of Flint Castle from the south west [1882?] King Charles's Tower, Chester King's Chapel, Cambridge Kingswear, Dartmouth	Lady Looking out of the Window of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire Land Gate at Rye, Kent [relatively early] Leycester's hospital, Warwick Lincoln Lincoln Cathedral and City, Lincolnshire, from below Stonebow Gate, 1862 Lincoln Cathedral from the South Long Gallery, Haddon Hall Looking towards Handbridge, Chester Lower Bridge Street, Chester (1) Lower Bridge Street, Chester (2) Lower Bridge Street, Chester (3) Lower Bridge Street, looking north Lower Bridge Street, looking south, Chester [before 1880] Ludlow Market Cross, Winchester Market Day, Chippenham (oil) Market Day, Lower Bridge Street, Chester Market in Lower Bridge Street@ Market Place, Beverley, Yorkshire Market Place, Canterbury Market Place Grantham, Lincolnshire Market Place, Ludlow Market Place [Selby] Market scene at Chippenham Market Square, Ludlow [c.1865] A Mediaeval Courtyard with children and other Figures Mediaeval interior with solitary figure Meeting with the Teacher Monk Bar Gate, York Mount Street, and St. Giles Church, Wrexham, North Wales Narrows with the Butter Cross beyond, Ludlow, Shropshire [c.1865?] North side of Eastgate Street, Chester [1860s] North side of Watergate Street Row, Chester Northgate Street and Northgate, Chester [before 1877] Northgate Street, Chester Old Conway The Old Edgar, Lower Bridge Street, Chester Old Houses - Head of West Bow [Edinburgh] Old Houses, Shrewsbury Old Market Village, South Petherton, Somerset The Old Town/Near the Grassmarket Edingburgh {pair?] Old Temple Bar, London Oriel Oxford Oxford The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent The Pavement, York Port of Leith, Edinburgh Poultry Cross, Salisbury 1870 Poultry Cross, Salisbury (2) Preparing for Petermas fair, Peterborough [before 1877] Queens Head Vaults [Foregate Street, not Northgate, Chester] Reid's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh Rheims Cathedral, France Roslin Chapel [interior] (oil) [before 1877] The Royal Mile, Edinburgh St. Ann Street, Salisbury c.1875 St. Clement's Church from Hill Street, Hastings St. George’s Chapel, Windsor – exterior [before 1877] St. Mary's Church from Church Street, Warwick St. Mary's Conduit, Lincoln 1881 St. Michael's Church, Bridge Street Chester St. Michael's Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge St. Saviour's Pavement, York St. Stephen’s Gateway, Salisbury [before 1877] St. Werburgh's Mount, St Werburgh Street, Chester St. Werburgh's Mount, St Werburgh Street, Chester 1873 St. Werburgh Street, Chester 16/3/1896 Salisbury c.1870 Selby Abbey Shopping day [catch-all title, various places] Silver Street, Salisbury Smith Street, Warwick [before 1877] South side of Watergate Street, Chester Southern end of Northgate Street, Chester@ Stanley Palace, at the Junction of Watergate and Nicholas Streets [Chester?] Staple Inn, Holborn/Drury Court London [pair] The Strand Street Scene, Cambridge Street scene in Chester Street Scene with Figures The Street Urchins Street View, Chester Study of a Watermill (oil) The Temple Bar, London Temple Bar from the Strand The Terrace at Haddon Hall Tewkesbury Tolsey Lane, Tewkesbury The Town Hall, Northgate Street [after 1869] Town Hall Square, Chester Upper Bridge Street View of a Village Street A View of Bootham Bar, York View of Bristol about 1850 A View of Cambridge c.1880 = Gates of Magdelene College View of Eastgate Street, Chester in the 1870s A View of Irongate, Derby, 1865 A View of St. Sampson's Square, York, 1879 View of the half Moon Battery of Edinburgh Castle from Candlemaker Row View of the ruins of Flint castle, 1882 View of Windsor A view of Windsor Castle from Peascod Street A view of York Views in Chester [before 1877] Views in Oxford [before 1877] Walmgate Bar, York Warriston's Close, Edinburgh The Water Conduit at St.Mary le Wigford, Lincoln 1901 Watergate Row North, Chester [1892-6] Watergate Street and Holy Trinity Church, Chester Watergate Street, Chester [before 1877] Watergate Street, Chester (2) Watergate Street, Chester 1881 Watergate Street, Chester, a View of the South Side Watergate Street, Chester, looking West Watergate Street, looking east c.1870 Watergate Street, looking towards Eastgate, Chester c.1870 West side of Bridge Street, Chester [1873-9] West Bow, Edinburgh White Horse Close, Canongate, Edinbugh, 1867 Windsor Within the City Walls, Chester Wych Street, London [before 1877] Wych Street, Strand, London [pair?] Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury
MARGARET RAYNER
Armour on a Table in a Mediaeval Room [Two interiors of Knole Castle match the above description] At the church door Barons Chapel, Haddon Hall Canopied tomb inside a church Castle interior Cathedral Interior with Figure The Chapel, Haddon Hall Children by a Font in a Gothic Church Children by a Tomb Children by Ruins [said to be Vale Craven Abbey, North Wales] Church at Stratford-upon-Avon A church interior Church Interior with Figure Church Interiors Conway Church, North Wales Conway Church, North Wales [with figure] Dacre Monument, Herstmonceux Figure in a Church Interior A Figure Sweeping Steps Before a Country House Figures in the Courtyard of a Ruined Castle Figures on a Town Street Girl Feeding Doves in Mediaeval Courtyard [Edinburgh] Haddon Hall Chapel Hall Interior Hythe Church, Kent	Interior of a Cathedral Interior of a church Interior of a church (with vaulted tomb) Interior of Conway Church with Gothic Carving Interior of the Chapel at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire Interior View of Hythe Church with Bearded Man at Door c.1900 A Jacobean Hall The Knight's Tryst A man by castle ruins Mediaeval Castle Interior Mischievous children at play in a church (a pair of pictures) The monks retreat The old mill, pen & ink Rochester Castle [man by castle ruins?] St. Jacques Steps to the Belfry, Harbledown Church, Canterbury, England Stratford Church Study of the Interior of a Cathedral Tombs of the Covenanters, Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, pen & ink, 1887 Traitors Gate, York Minster Walled garden, Haddon Hall
NANCY RAYNER
Church interior, Conway, North Wales Eldest sons of the Hon. Lt. Col. Liddell An Equestrian Portrait of an Officer in Her Majesty's Service, taken at St. Martin's-le-Grand [c.1855] The Gleaners The hurdy-gurdy boy/A little flower girl [pair] The hurdy-gurdy man	Interiors of Knole [2, titles not known, c.1852] Portrait of the Gloucester children, 1850 [the above is also known as Summer Pastimes] The Savoyard Weary little minstrel, 1850 The weary traveller A young milkmaid
RICHARD RAYNER
After the Storm [St Mary Cray church, Kent?] (c.1860-75) Alter Torbogen mit Figuren, im Hintergrund Spitze einer Kathedrale 1866 An Old Ruin by a River Farmyard scene (viewed through open barn doors) (gouache)	Holyrood, Edinburgh, 1877 Lime kiln near Abinger Hammer, Surrey, with two young children@, 1881 Orpington Orpington Priory@, 1891 Rughen Castle 1878
ROSE RAYNER
Divided Attention Miss Catty	Russian Cake Seller (c.1880?)
SAMUEL RAYNER
The Abbot's Visit 1874 All Saints' (interior), Derby 1848 (lithograph) The Armourer 1860 The Armoury at Naworth Castle Artist & spectator in a ruin 1876 (Lindisfarne) The Barons Chapel, Haddon Hall Bath Abbey: details of heraldic carving (pencil c.1824) Bath Abbey: details of carving (pencil c.1824) Bath Abbey: details from the west front (pencil c.1824) Bath Abbey: details of the west front (pencil c.1824) Bath Abbey: details of Prior Byrde's Chantry (pencil c.1824) Bath Abbey: details of the west front and Prior Byrde's Chantry (pencil c.1824) Bath Abbey: studies of windows (pencil c.1824) Battle Scene on the Bridge Beside a Castle A Chapel Scene 1876 Church Interior (1) Church interior (2) A Church Interior (3) 1863 A Church Interior (4) # attrib A Church Interior with Font, Pulpit and Screen Composition Couple sitting playing chess in a drawing room The Crypt at Wells Cathedral (1) The Crypt, Wells Cathedral (2?) Crypt in Cathedral Interior 1862 Derby Mechanics Institute Exhibition 1839 (lithograph) Derby Mechanics Institute Exhibition 1839 (the same, lithograph - coloured) Engelsk kirkeinterior, solen skiner gennem de blyindfattede ruder English Church interior Entering the Chapel 1875	The Fallen Knight Figures in the loggia of a continental building 1860 # attrib The Gallery over the Hall, Knole, Kent Haddon Hall Courtyard # attrib Haddon Hall, Derbyshire Haddon Hall interior (chapel) Haddon Hall North entrance Haddon Hall with Figures The Installation of an Abbot Interior of a bedroom [coloured lithograph] Interior of a drawing room in a town house Interior of Knole Castle, Kent, 1858 Interior of the Beauchamp Chapel, St. Mary's, Warwick Interior of the Chapel, Haddon Hall The long Gallery, Hever Castle 1845 A Mediaeval interior Melrose Abbey The Monks cell, Howorth(?) Castle Monks in a Cathedral Interior The Monastery refectory Monks Reading books beside a Window in a Mediaeval Interior Peasant girl and children gathering water at a fountain 1857 St John's Church, Derby, about 1838 St. Peter's Church, Derby The Terrace, Haddon Hall The Terrace steps, Haddon Hall (sepia) The Tomb in the crypt of Arundel Castle View of Chatsworth from the south-west View of Chatsworth from the west Wash Day 1859 The Watermill 1846 The West Porch, Lichfield Cathedral White Horse Yard, Edinburgh
Samuel Rayner's Lithographs and published books included:
Rayner's Sketches of Derbyshire Scenery Lithographed by Harding. Part 1. Published by S. Rayner, Museum Parade, Matlock Bath, 1st August 1830. Rayner's Illustrations of Derbyshire Scenery. Volume 1. Published by J. Vallance, Centre Museum, Matlock Bath, and S. Rayner, 11 Blandford Street, London. (c1830) Rayner's Illustrations of Chatsworth, in 1831 S. Rayner, 11 Blandford Street, Portman Square, London. The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall Illustrated by 32 highly finished drawings; with an account of the Hall in its present state. Published by Robert Moseley, Derby, 1836. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the Town of Derby and its Environs Illustrated by lithographic drawings beautifully printed in tints. Lithographic Printing Office, 17 Friar Gate, Derby. 1838. (There were to have been 24 parts with 50 plates, but only three parts were issued with 8 plates.)

Harry Drummond, August 2007.

Please take note: we claim no art expertise, and in no way do we offer provenance for any paintings. What you see here was compiled out of interest in Louise Rayner's paintings and those of her family, but is based on sometimes very fragmentary evidence. As such, it is inevitable that there will be errors, though we naturally hope to reduce these over time.

We would gratefully receive any information or corrections that will help us to fill the gaps and resolve unproved links - for example confirmation of dates of birth, death, etc., and details of other addresses the family lived at (and roughly when). Images of any of the family's paintings would also be very welcome. Thank you!

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