ID 1443101
Lot 235 | JOHN FERNELEY SENIOR (THRUSSINGTON 1782-1860 MELTON MOWBRAY)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
William Bowan Jordan Wilson's grey hunter and Newfoundland shooting dog, in a wooded landscape, beyond a city, possibly York
signed, inscribed and dated 'J Ferneley / Melton My / 1837' (lower right)
oil on canvas
34 1/8 x 42 1/8 in. (86.7 x 106.8 cm.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist in 1837 by William Bowan Jordan Wilson (1808-1887) for £13.13.0.
with Arthur Ackermann & Son, 1969.
Mrs Hugh Henderson, Cumbria; Christie's, London, 20 June 1975, lot 157, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
Major G. Paget, The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, Leicester, 1931, p. 144, no. 434 in the artist's account book.
'Front Matter - Ackermanns Advert', Apollo, XC, 1 October 1969, lxiv.
A. Vandervell and C. Coles, Game & the English Landscape: The Influence of the Chase on Sporting Art and Scenery, London, 1980, p. 66, illustrated.
R. Fountain, John Ferneley (1782-1860) Catalogue of Paintings, published online, 2014, p. 42, no. E.37.434.001.
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