LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

canvas: 38 by 67 in.; 96.5 x 170.2 cm

Edition:

signed Heywood Hardy (lower left); inscribed on the reverse Meet of the Quorn Hounds at Kirby Gate November 7, 1910/The Figures on horseback reading from left to right are:/F. Cartinell, Esq./G. Leaf, Huntsman/Captain F. Forester/Miss Mary Forester/Mr. Black, Jnr. of Frisby/Henry Forester, Esq./R. Guinett, Stud Groom/The figures on foot are:/Harry Haughton, Earth Stopper/Mr. Astill of Kirby Hall, Farmer/Mrs. Forester with Miss Aline Forester speaking to two favorite hounds/In the pony cart in rear is seen Miss Catherine Forester with her nurse./Painted by Heywood Hardy. (on the reverse)

Description:

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Markings:

Property from the Collection of the Late Paula and Don Gaston

Condition:

framed: 47 by 76 in.; 119.5 by 193 cm The canvas is lined with Mylar. The paint surface is in good condition and under a clean varnish. Minor craquelure along the lower edge; widely spaced craquelure in the sky that has been stabilized by the lining process. Minor craquelure filing to the red jacket on the central rider as well as the rider in red at left.

Provenance:

Major Henry Forester, Massachusetts His sale; Christie's, New York, 7 June, 1985, lot 153, as The Meet of the Quorn Hunt at Kirby Gate, November 7, 1910, with Asfordly Church in the Distance Acquired at the above sale by the present owner