LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.25 in. (99.70 cm.) (height) by 74.25 in. (188.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower right: Geo: Stubbs pinxit

Exhibited:

London, Society of Artists, Spring Exhibition 1768, no. 165; London, Society of Artists, Exhibition in Honour of the King of Denmark, November 1768 no 112； Texas, Kimbell Museum & London, National Gallery, Stubbs and the Horse, 2004, no. 57, p. XI, 114, 193-4.

Literature:

M. Parker, Countess of Macclesfield, Scattered Notices of Shirburn Castle, 1887, p. 39; W. Gilbey, Life of George Stubbs RA, London 1898, p. 169; J. Egerton, 'George Stubbs and the Landscape of Creswell Craggs,' Burlington Magazine, London 1984, p. 743; J. Egerton, George Stubbs 1724-1896, Exhibition Catalogue, Tate London 1984 a, p. 109; C. Lennox-Boyd, R. Dixon, and T. Clayton, George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, London 1989, pp. 74-76 with detail pp. 76-77 (cited below under engraved); J. Egerton, George Stubbs: Painter, Yale, 2007, pp. 258-9, no. 89 ENGRAVED in mezzotint (in reverse) by Benjamin Green, as Brood Mares, and inscribed; The Original Picture is in the Possession of the Honourable Colonel Parker: LONDON Publish'd as the Act directs, May 10: 1768.

Provenance:

Colonel George Lane Parker (1724-1791) of Woodbury, Cambridgeshire, second son of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire; by descent to elder his brother, Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire; thence by descent to the present owner.