Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens (1829-1915)

The Horse Race: The Start and The Finish, with soldiers lining the track

Details

Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens (1829-1915)
The Horse Race: The Start and The Finish, with soldiers lining the track
one signed and dated ‘C. Lutyens. / 53’ (lower left), one indistinctly inscribed (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 36in. (60.9 x 91.4cm.)
(2)a pair

Provenance

Purchased from Bill Henry, 47 Albemarle Street, London, 16 January 1981, as works painted in Canada.

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Lot Essay

Charles Lutyens (father of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens), went to Canada as an Ensign in the 20th Foot and served in Canada until 1852. He was Master of the Montreal Hunt in 1851-2, and married Mary Theresa, the sister of the Governor of Montreal, Sir Thomas Gallwey, in the same year. He was a close friend of Sir Edwin Landseer (for whom he named his son, the architect) and specialised in hunting and racing pictures, exhibiting at the Royal Academy and elsewhere between 1861 and 1903.

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