LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on mahogany panel

Measurements:

20.28 in. (51.50 cm.) (height) by 29.02 in. (73.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears signature (possibly strengthening an original signature beneath) and dated lower centre: Geo. Stubbs pt 1779

Literature:

W. Roberts,. Catalogue of Paintings in the collection of Mrs Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr., at Sewickly Heights, Pennsylvania , privately printed, New York 1934, p. 164;. J. Egerton,. George Stubbs, Painter , New Haven and London 2007, p. 424, cat. no. 216, reproduced in colour p. 425. ENGRAVED By George Townly Stubbs, published by J. Harris, 1 January 1789

Provenance:

Painted for Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (1731-1802);. By descent to his son, Robert, 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later 1st Marquess of Westminster (1767-1845);. By whom sold, London, Peter Coxe, 2 July 1812, lot 19, for £18.-7s.;. J.J. Gillespie & Co., Pittsburgh;. From whom purchased by Mrs Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., of Sewickly Heights, Pennsylvania, by 1934; . Her Estate sale, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 4 December 1941, lot 17;. City Bank Farmers Trust Co., New York (according to a label on the reverse of the frame);. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 20 November 1987, lot 26;. Private Collection, England