Lot Essay
Best is most well known for being an honest copyist of Stubbs although no prototype for this picture is known.
A saddled bay hunter with a groom and hounds, in a lake landscape
Details
John Best (fl.1750-1801)
A saddled bay hunter with a groom and hounds, in a lake landscape
signed 'J Best. Pinxit.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.8 x 91.4 cm.)
A saddled bay hunter with a groom and hounds, in a lake landscape
signed 'J Best. Pinxit.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.8 x 91.4 cm.)
Provenance
Purchased in June 1934.