Fox and Hounds in the Wood, 1930 oil on canvas, 273/4 x 391/2 inches signed and dated Bruno Liljefors 1930
De Dreux, About to Go Down to the Start (detail)
Plate 3
George Stubbs (British, 1724-1806)
A Dark Bay Horse belonging to the Duke of Marlborough, seen near toadstools on a tree stump,, circa 1764 oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches
Provenance
Painted for George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, c. 1764
Thence by descent to the 8th Duke of Marlborough, by whom sold Blenheim Palace sale, Christie’s July 31, 1886, lot 204
Agnew’s, London, acquired from above
E. Spielman, Ltd. July 6,1951, acquired from above with Scott and Fowles who exported to Wildenstein, NY December 20, 1951
Purchased by Agnew’s, London, from Wildenstein, December 1956
Sir Denys Lowson,1957 (a family descendant of the Marlborough’s)
Thence by family descent until an executors’ sale, Bonhams London, July 9th 2003, lot 57.
Private Collection New York to present
Literature
George Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné of the works of art at Blenheim Palace, 1862, p 197 Country Life, April 1957
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter, Catalogue Raisonne, Paul Melon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2007, p. 206, no 57
Note
Judy Edgerton writes that little is known about the horse in the Stubbs portrait commissioned c. 1764 by George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace. The horse was most likely a hack. For this purpose, it would have had to been a solid mount for as Joshua Reynolds shows in several portraits in the 1760’s the 4th Duke appeared as a very solidly built man. Edgerton concludes that if the sandy soil beneath the horses’ feet and the prominent appearance of toad stools in the foreground allude to his name the allusion has not been unearthed. George Scharf notes that by 1862 this picture hung among portraits in the South Upstairs Corridor of Blenheim Palace.
Benjamin Marshall (British, 1783-1865)
Coursing: A Gentleman and Groom with Greyhounds, c. 1820 oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches signed B. Marshall
Plate 8
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894)
Trois Perdrix sur une Table oil on canvas, 15 x 22 inches signed G. Caillebotte
About to Go Down to the Start oil on canvas, 29 x 36 inches
John E. Ferneley, Sr. (British, 1782-1860)
Game Fowls in a Barnyard, 1830 oil on canvas, 28 x 353/4 inches signed J. Ferneley and dated 1830
John Sargent Noble (British, 1848-1896)
Shooting Pony and Setters with the Day’s Bag oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches signed J S Noble
Plate 18
Gundog and Game oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches signed Alexander Pope
Above: Plate 19
Eugene Pechaubes (French, 1890-1967)
St. Cloud 1935 Prix Flying Fox, 1935 oil on canvas, 13 x 36 inches signed Eug. Pechaubes and inscribed on verso St. Cloud 1935 Prix Flying Fox
Henry Rankin Poore (American, 1859-1940)
Old Reliables - Hounds in the Snow oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches signed H.R. Poore
Out Foxhunting, 1926 oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches signed FB Voss and dated 1926
At the Ready bronze; dark brown patina, 10 x 16 inches signed Eg. Lemaitre
Ogden Minton Pleissner (American, 1905-1983)
A View from the Terrace, Cotton Bay, Bahamas watercolor on paper, 16 x 26 inches signed Pleissner
Plate 28
Peter Howell (American, 1932-2023)
Fall Exercise - Leaving the Stables, 1977 oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches signed Howell and dated 77
William Smithson Broadhead (American, 1888-1960)
Steeplechasers on the Course oil on canvas, 191/2 x 271/2 inches signed W. Smithson Broadhead
