John Wootton
Lord Essex's Smiling Ball
101.5 x 127 cmOil on canvas
Sale Bonhams, London, 9 July 2008
Provenance
Collection of George Pitt, 2nd and last Lord Rivers (1751-1828), Stratfield Saye and thence by descent to Captain Pitt-Rivers, The Manor House, Hinton St. Mary, Dorset
his sale, Christie's, London, 12 April 1929, nr. 37 (£150.5.0 to Urquhart)
acquired thereafter by David Davies, first Baron of Llandinam (1880-1944) and thence by descent to the present owner
sale Bonhams, London, 9 July 2008, nr. 69
Other works by John Wootton
An Italianate river landscape
An Italianate landscape at dusk
A drover and other figures by a stream in a classical landscape
An Italianate landscape with a drover and livestock resting beside a lake
Drovers resting in an Italianate landscape