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BENJAMIN MARSHALL (SEAGRAVE 1768-1835 LONDON)

Lot 22
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 150 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1239222
Lot 22 | BENJAMIN MARSHALL (SEAGRAVE 1768-1835 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 250 000
BENJAMIN MARSHALL (SEAGRAVE 1768-1835 LONDON)
The Hon. Peniston Lamb (1770-1805), with his horse Assassin and his dog Tanner
oil on canvas
30 ¾ x 38 ½ in. (78 x 97.6 cm.)




Provenance

(Presumably) Commissioned by the sitter or his parents, Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1748-1828) and Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne (1749-1818), Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire and Melbourne House, London, and by descent to their son,
William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), and by inheritance to his sister,
Emily, Lady Cowper (1787-1869), wife of Peter, 5th Earl Cowper (1778-1837), Brocket Hall, and moved to Panshanger House, Hertfordshire, in 1869, and by descent to,
Ethel, Lady Desborough (1867-1952), and by descent.



Literature

M.L. Boyle, Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of the Earl of Cowper, K.G., London, 1885, p. 324, no. 15, as 'Stubbs'.
Panshanger Gallery Guidebook, circa 1900, annotated MS., Firle Place, Sussex, where listed in Earl Cowper's Sitting Room.
M. Chamot, ‘Panshanger Hertfordshire-II: A Seat of Lord and Lady Desborough’, Country Life, LXXIX, 18 January 1936, pp. 66 and 68, fig. 16, as ‘Stubbs’.
W. Shaw Sparrow, George Stubbs and Ben Marshall, London, 1929, p. xi, illustrated in colour as the frontispiece, as ‘George Stubbs’.
P. Humfrey, ‘The Picture Collection of the Earls Cowper at Panshanger’, Artibus et Historiae, XLIV, no. 88, pp. 257 and 270, visible in fig. 63.



Exhibited

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Animals in Art, 10 October-4 December 1907, no. 121, as 'George Stubbs' (lent by Countess Cowper).
London, M. Knoedler & Company, Old Sporting Pictures: Loan Exhibition in aid of the Royal Free Hospital, 7-30 June 1928, no. 5, as 'George Stubbs' (lent by Lady Desborough).
London, 25 Park Lane, Loan Exhibition of 18th Century English Conversation Pieces in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital, 4-30 March 1930, no. 42, as ‘George Stubbs’ (lent by Lady Desborough).
Sussex, Firle Place, 2000-2024, on loan.
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