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

A chestnut thoroughbred before a barn in an open landscape

Haymakers
1785

A prancing horse with two dogs, in a landscape
1791

A dun hunter on the south bank of the River Humber, Lincolnshire
1792

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