LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.16 in. (102.00 cm.) (height) by 76.22 in. (193.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'Gimcrack' (lower centre left)

Exhibited:

London, Hutchinson House, National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, 1948, no. 133. London, Royal Academy, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 1954-5, no. 107. Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Toledo, British Painting in the Eighteenth Century, 1957-58, no. 67. Richmond, Virginia, Museum of Fine Arts, Sport and the Horse, 1 April-15 May 1960. London, Christie's, Bicentenary Exhibition, 1966. London, Tate Gallery, and New Haven, The Yale Center for British Art, George Stubbs, 1984-5, no. 55. Madrid, The Prado, Pinturas Britanicas, 1988-9, no. 19. London, Tate Gallery, In Celebration: The Art of the Country House, 1998-99, no. 35. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, and London, The National Gallery, Stubbs & The Horse, 2004-05, no. 45.

Literature:

70-71.lor, Stubbs, London, 1971, p. 43-5, pl. 32, details pls. 30-1 and 35-6. C.A. Parker, Mr Stubbs the Horse Painter, London, 1971, p. 109. V. Morrison, The Art of George Stubbs, London, 1989, pp. 57, 70-71. J. Egerton, 'George Stubbs', The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner, London 1996, XXIX, pp. 808-9. D. Oldrey, The Jockey Club Rooms, A Catalogue and History of the Collection, London, 2006, p. 22, under no. 72. J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 226-27, no. 70.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke (1734-1787), circa 1765. Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke; Christie's, London, 11 March 1780, lot 82 (27 gns. to the following). George St. John, later 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, and by descent to. Vernon Henry St. John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke; Christie's, London, 10 December 1943, lot 48 (4,200 gns. to Ellis and Smith). Walter Hutchinson; Christie's, London, 20 July 1951, lot 122 (12,000 gns. to the Woolavington Collection).