Lot 84
84

Details

School of JOHN WOOTTON* (British, 1676-1775)

Viscount Weymouth's Hunt

oil on copper
20½ x 18½in. (52 x 47cm.);
21¼ x 21in. (54 x 53.3cm.);
21 x 17½in. (53.3 x 44.4cm.) a set of three (3)
Provenance
Arthur Ackermann & Son, London
Yale Center for British Art, The Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Ct. Sale Sotheby's, London, Paintings from The Paul Mellon Collection, Nov 18, 1981, lot 47
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, June 8, 1984, lot 255

Lot Essay

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