George Stubbs

Provenance

Collection of the Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, 1862
Probably sold by the Eighth Duke of Marlborough in 1886
Purchased by Agnew's, London from E. Spielman, Ltd., along with another painting by Stubbs, 6th July 1951
Both pictures sold to Scott and Fowles, 20th December, 1951
Purchased by Agnew's, London, from Wildenstein, December 1956
Purchased by the present owner's family from Agnew's, London, 26th April, 1957 (£4,500) and thence by descent
Sale Bonhams, London, 9 July 2003, nr. 57

Other works by George Stubbs

Portrait of a Young Gentleman Out Shooting
1781

The Harrower

The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog
1768

Colonel Pocklington with His Sisters
1769

Joseph Smyth Esquire, Lieutenant of Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire, on a Dapple Grey Horse
c.1762-1764