GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)

Estimate value
£ 7 000 000 – 10 000 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +01:00
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United Kingdom, London
ID 1239212
Lot 21 | GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)
GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)
Mares and Foals in an extensive landscape
signed ‘Geo: Stubbs’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
72 5/8 x 107 7/8 in. (184.5 x 274 cm.)




Provenance

Probably Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), Euston Hall, Suffolk, presumably by whom given to his daughter,
Lady Georgiana FitzRoy (1757-1799), who married, on 4 June 1778, The Rt. Hon. John Smyth (1748-1811), M.P., of Heath Hall, Wakefield, and presumably by descent to their son,
[Although possibly commissioned by John Smyth, and by descent to his son,]
Lt.-Col. George Smyth (1782-1853), who married, in 1811, Sarah Wilson (d. 1831), daughter of Daniel Wilson (1680-1754), M.P., of Dallam Tower, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, and by descent at Dallam to,
Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson, Bt. (1875-1957), Dallam Tower, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, and by inheritance to his nephew,
Brigadier C.E. Tryon-Wilson (1909-2001), Dallam Tower, Milnthorpe, Westmorland.
with Ackermann, London.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Dick, Connecticut; their sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 April 1976, lot 187, when acquired by the following,
Private collection, Illinois, and by descent to the present owners.



Literature

B. Taylor, Stubbs in the 1760s, exhibition catalogue, London, 1970, Supplementary Exhibit D.
C-A. Parker, Mr Stubbs The Horse Painter, London, 1971, p. 57, illustrated.
B. Taylor, Stubbs, Chichester and Ipswich, rev. ed., 1975, p. 207, no. 25, pl. 25.
W. Gaunt, Stubbs, Oxford, 1977, pp. 6 and 15, pl. 18.
J. Egerton, George Stubbs 1724-1806, exhibition catalogue, London, 1985, pp. 125 and 128, under no. 90.
M. Warner, Stubbs & the Horse, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, 2004-2005, p. 194, under no. 57.
J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 260-1, no. 90, illustrated.



Exhibited

Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, British Sporting Paintings, 4 October-30 October 1943, no. 112 (lent by Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson, Bt., Dallam Tower).
Manchester, City of Manchester Art Gallery, Works of Art from Private Collections in the North West of England and North Wales, 21 September-30 October 1960, no. 108 (lent by Brigadier C.E. Tryon Wilson).
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