George Stubbs

Provenance

Commissioned by Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke (1734-1787), circa 1765
Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke
sale Christie's, London, 11 March 1780, nr. 82 (27 gns. to the following)
George St. John, later 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, and by descent to
Vernon Henry St. John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke
sale Christie's, London, 10 December 1943, nr. 48 (4,200 gns. to Ellis and Smith)
Walter Hutchinson
sale Christie's, London, 20 July 1951, nr. 122 (12,000 gns. to the Woolavington Collection)
sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, nr. 12

Other works by George Stubbs

Mares and Foals in a River Landscape
c.1763-8

The Reverend Robert Carter Thelwall and His Family
1776

Bay Hunter by a Lake
1787

A bay hunter with two playful spaniels
1777

Reapers
1785