John Wootton
Classical Landscape with Gypsies
1748140.3 x 130.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated at lower center: J. Wootton / Fecit 1748
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fletcher Fund, 1931
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 16
Provenance
Sir James Dashwood, Bart.
Dashwood family
Sir George John Egerton Dashwood, 6th Baronet
John David Leslie Melville, 14th Earl of Leven and 11th Earl of Melville
Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville, 15th Earl of Leven and 12th Earl of Melville
Hubert Maitland Budgett, Esq.
with Acton Surgey, Ltd. , 1931, sold to MMA
Other works by John Wootton
A dark chestnut racehorse held by a jockey, by the rubbing down house, Newmarket Heath
The 3rd Duke of Devonshire's racehorse, Scamp
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) at the Siege of Tournai
Hounds and a Magpie
An Arcadian landscape with classical figures