Provenance

The Collection of A. Kennedy Kisch Esq.
sale Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1958, nr. 48
with J. Leger and Son, London (Apollo, June 1959)
where purchased by the father of the present owner
sale Bonhams, London, 8 July 2009, nr. 84 (bought in)

Other works by James Seymour

A chestnut hunter with rider up

Flying Childers, the Duke of Devonshire

Hound in a landscape
1748

Flying Childers with a jockey

A racehorse, traditionally identified as Molotto, held by a groom