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Robert Pyle (fl. 1760-1769)
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Tregonwell Frampton, Keeper of the Running Horses at Newmarket, small full lnegth in a dark coat, waistcoat and tricorn hat, and buff breeches, in an open landscape
signed lower right 'R. Pyle pxt' and inscribed on an old label on the reverse 'Frampton, the founder of the Newmarket Racecourse. Painted by R. Pyle'
20½ x 16½in. (52 x 42in. )
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Tregonwell Frampton, Keeper of the Running Horses at Newmarket, small full lnegth in a dark coat, waistcoat and tricorn hat, and buff breeches, in an open landscape
signed lower right 'R. Pyle pxt' and inscribed on an old label on the reverse 'Frampton, the founder of the Newmarket Racecourse. Painted by R. Pyle'
20½ x 16½in. (52 x 42in. )
Provenance
Given by Archibald, Earl of Rosebery, by Charles, Lord Carington, 1877, according to the label on the frame