LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.51 in. (102.90 cm.) (height) by 50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Geo Stubbs pinxit 1803' (lower centre)

Literature:

B. Taylor, Stubbs, London, 1971, pp. 39 and 215, under no. 132. Evening Standard, 24 May 1977, p. 16, illustrated. R. Fountain and A. Gates, Stubbs' Dogs, The Hounds and Domestic Dogs of the Eighteenth Century as seen though the Paintings of George Stubbs, 1984, pp. 53 and 99, no. 67a, fig. 28. J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 620, no. 335A.

Provenance:

Henry Uttrick Reay (1750-1828), Killingworth House, Northumberland, and by inheritance through his only daughter and heiress Elizabeth, who married Matthew Bell (1793-1871), of Woolsington Hall, Northumberland to her husband's nephew. William Lorraine Bell, Woolsington Hall, Northumberland; Christie's, London, 31 March 1922, lot 127 (unsold). with the Sporting Gallery & Bookstore, Inc., New York. with Walter Wallace, New York, from whom purchased in May 1938 by. Henry P. McIlhenny, of Philadelphia, and later of Glenveagh Castle, Churchill, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, by whom donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Acquired from Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London, June 1977.