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JOHN WOOTTON (1686-1764)

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25.05.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 960876
Lot 52 | JOHN WOOTTON (1686-1764)
JOHN WOOTTON (1686-1764)

'The Bloody Shoulder'd Arabian'

signed 'J.Wootton Fect.' (lower right) and inscribed 'BLOODY SHOULDERD ARABIAN.' (upper right)

oil on canvas

39 1/2 x 50 in. (101 x 127 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) painted for Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (1713-1789), Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, and by descent to

John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds (1901-1963); Sotheby’s, London, 14 June 1961, lot 18 (£1,000 to the following),

with Frost & Reed, London.

with the Rutland Gallery, London, 1963.

James F. Lewis Jnr., Florida; (†) Sotheby's, New York, 10 June 1983, lot 150.

with Richard Green, London, 1984, where purchased.



Literature

Historical and descriptive catalogue of pictures belonging to His Grace The Duke of Leeds, London, 1902, p. 12, no. 19, in the Billiard Room.

W. Shaw Sparrow, British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, London, 1922, pp. 89 and 110.

A. Bury, ‘Celebrated Sires’, The Connoisseur, CXLVIII, no. 595, September 1961, p. 162.

A. Meyer, John Wootton 1628-1764: Landscapes and sporting art in early Georgian England, exhibition catalogue, London, 1984, p. 34, under no. 5.



Exhibited

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Sport Illustrated by Art, 1890, no. 230.



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Artist:John Wootton (1682 - 1764)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Historical era:Victorian period
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Paintings
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