Viscount Weymouth's hunt: The death of the fox; Coming at the death; and Returning from the chase

Details

Studio of John Wootton (Snitterfield, Warwicks c. 1682-1764 London)
Viscount Weymouth's hunt: The death of the fox; Coming at the death; and Returning from the chase
oil on copper
21 x 21 in . ( 53.3 x 53.3 cm.); and smaller
(3)three in the lot

Provenance

with Arthur Ackermann & Son, London.
The Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conneticut.
Paintings from The Paul Mellon Collection; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1981, lot 47.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 1984, lot 255.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 5 June 1993, lot 84.

Literature

Judie Egerton, British Sporting & Animal Painting 1655-1867, Tate for the Yale Centre, 1978, cat. no. 24.

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Lot Essay

These three paintings are reduced versions of three of the set of six large hunting series painted for the Hall at Longleat for Thomas Thynne, 2^nd Viscount Weymouth (1710-1751). They were probably painted as models for the engravings.

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