The artist Ernest Moore was commissioned in 1902, by the miners of the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery, to paint a full-length portrait of Mr. Howard Aston Allport, of Barnsley.
This portrait was painted while Howard Aston Allport was the owner of Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery, South Yorkshire. During this period the colliery was situated on the estate of Lord Wharncliffe, from whom the mining rights were leased. Howard Aston Allport lived at Dodworth Grove near Barnsley.
