George Mountford, Huntsman to the Quorn, and W. Derry, Whipper-In, at John O'Gaunt's Gorse, near Melton Mowbray
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 1/2 x 35 3/4 inches (72.4 x 90.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "R. B. Davis | 1836"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.214
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
men | hunting | brown | red | grass | dogs (animals) | horses (animals)
Associated Places:
Leicestershire | Melton Mowbray | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Chronicle of the Horse in Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2016-08-26 - 2017-04-26)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 84-85, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 237, no. 256, pl. 86, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 188 (v.1), no. 360, pl. 70, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 79 (v.1), no. 278, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Claudia P. Pfeiffer, Chronicle of the Horse in art, National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, Virginia, 2016, pp. 3,34-35, 110 [fn 46], pl. 10, N7668.H6 P44 2016 (YCBA)