GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON) - photo 1
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GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)

Lot 23
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1441841
Lot 23 | GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)
A prancing horse with two dogs, in a landscape
signed 'Geo: Stubbs / pinxit 1791' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
40 x 49 ¾ in. (101.6 x 126.7 cm.)




Provenance

with Arthur Ackermann and Son, London, by 1946.
Walter Hutchinson (1887-1950); his sale (†), Christie's, London, 20 July 1951, lot 127, where acquired for 2,000 gns. by the following,
with Leggatt Brothers, London, presumably from whom acquired by,
The Viscounts Wimborne, Ashby St Ledgers Manor, Northamptonshire, and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

'Auctions', Die Weltkunst, XXI, 1 August 1951, p. 5.
T.P. Greig, 'In the Auction Rooms', The Connoisseur, CXXVIII, October 1952, p. 128.
B. Taylor, Animal Painting in England: from Barlow to Landseer, Baltimore, 1955, p. 64, pl. 21, as location unknown.
R. Fountain and A. Gates, Stubbs' Dogs: The Hounds and Domestic Dogs of the Eighteenth Century as seen through the Paintings of George Stubbs, London, 1984, pp. 103-4, no. 92, fig. 64.
J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 635, under untraced paintings.



Exhibited

London, Hutchinson House, National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, 1947, no. 141.
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