LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on mahogany panel

Measurements:

23.50 in. (59.70 cm.) (height) by 27.99 in. (71.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Geo: Stubbs pinxit / 1777' (lower centre)

Exhibited:

(Probably) London, Royal Academy, 1778, no. 300, ‘Portrait of a horse and two dogs’.

Literature:

Rev J. Hodgson and Mr F.C. Laird, The Beauties of England and Wales, London, 1813, XII, part I, p. 197, recorded in Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire, ‘some good paintings, with portraits, and a horse by Stubbs’. J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 396, no. 193.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Charles Vere Dashwood (b. 1745), Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire, and by descent to the following, General Dashwood; Christie’s, London, 29 July 1949, lot 99 (240 gns. to Bernard). Sold by Bernard into a private collection, 1951, until the following sale. Anonymous sale [Property of a Lady]; Sotheby’s, London, 17 June 1970, lot 105 (£5,500 to Drysdale). Purchased privately by the current owner circa 1995.