James Seymour (c. 1702-839)
James Seymour (c. 1702-839)

A cavalier on a rearing charger

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James Seymour (c. 1702-839)
A cavalier on a rearing charger
pen and brown ink
3½ x 3¾ in. (8.9 x 9.5 cm.); and a chalk drawing of a young lady in a bonnet, by Henry Singleton, exhibited with the Sabin Galleries (2)
Provenance
with Spink, London.

Lot Essay

Seymour was a horse painter who was born and worked in London. He lived an extravagant life in Newmarket and in his early days rivalled John Wootton (1618-1764).

Singleton (1766-1839) was a painter of portraits, history and genre subjects often in the manner of Francis Wheatley, R.A. (1747-1801) and George Morland (1763-1804). He also worked as an illustrator and a number of his literary subjects were engraved.

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