Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John R. Wildman, active 1823–1839, British
Title:
A Hunting Party in the Grounds of a Country House
Date:
1820s-1830s
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 x 35 inches (68.6 x 88.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in white paint, lower right: "J R Wildman Pinx"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.63
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hunting | rabbit | men | house | country house | park (grounds) | landscape | genre subject | sporting art | dogs (animals) | greyhounds (breed)
Associated Places:
North Yorkshire | Farnley | Yorkshire | Europe | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 248-249, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 282, no. 308, pl. 101, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Illustrated catalogue of the collection of English pictures at the royal hotel, Scarborough, no. 92, pl. X, ND467 R69 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)

Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., English life and landscape, an exhibition of English pictures, 1730-1870, 8th March-8th April 1971. , [London, 1971, no. 41, ND1314.4 A35 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:155