James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859)

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James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859)

John Levett receiving a Pheasant from his Retriever on his Estate at Wychnor, his keeper on a pony beyond

signed and dated lower left 'J. Ward R.A. 1812';

26 x 36in. (71 x 91.5cm.)

Provenance

by descent to Colonel Berkeley Levett, great-grandson of John Levett; Christie's, 16 December 1938, lot 34 (1400gns. to Knoedler)

Literature

W. Shaw Sparrow, A Book of Sporting Painters, 1931, repro. in colour f.p. 72
Country Life, LXIX, 1931
'English Country Life', Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXVII, November 1940, p. 170, repro. p. 168 fig. B
E.J. Nygren, The Art of James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859), Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University 1976, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984, repro. fig. 126

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1812, no. 160, as 'Portraits of a gentleman, his keeper, shooting pony, and dogs'
London, Viscount Allendale's house, Piccadilly, Sporting Pictures, 1931

Lot Essay

Ward painted a number of other pictures of and for James Levett and his family, including The Levett Children, 1811 (exh. Arts Council at Tate Gallery, London, 1960, James Ward 1769-1859, no. 15, lent M. Bernard; repro. Country Life, 11 January 1960, p. 60) Portraits of Baxter, a favourite hunter, twenty-five years old, and Victoria, a foxhound of Lord Vernon's pack, the property of T. Lovett (sic), Royal Academy 1812, no. 100, and John Levett hunting in the Park of Wychnor, Staffordshire, signed and dated 1817, Royal Academy 1818, no. 154 (repro. Shaw Sparrow, op. cit., f.p. 80, and Nygren, op. cit., fig. 128)

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