Sir Edwin Landseer* (British, 1802-1873)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Details

Sir Edwin Landseer* (British, 1802-1873)

No Hunting till the Weather Breaks

oil on canvas
27½ x 36½in. (69.9 x 92.7cm.)

Provenance

Bought from the artist by
Henry William Eaton, later 1st Baron Cheyselesmore; sale, Christie's, May 7, 1892, lot 46 (700gns.)
With Leger Galleries (by 1953)
H. A Sutch
Mrs. M. Galvao; sale, Christie's, February 13, 1976, lot 60 (+1,700 to Cross)
E. J. H. Cross
Ian Posgate

Literature

Art Journal, 1865, p. 74
The Times, February 6, 1865, p. 5e
Athenaeum, no. 1946, February 11, 1865, p. 203
C.S. Mann, Landseer Prints, 1874-1877, London, 3, p. 18, 4, p. 126 A. Graves, Catalogue of the Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer R.A., London, 1876, p. 33, no. 415

Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1865, no. 189
London, Royal Academy, The Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., Winter 1974, no. 397
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Works of Art Illustrative of, and Connected with Sport, Winter 1890, no. 6
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Sir Edwin Landseer, October 25, 1981-January 3, 1982; this exhibition later traveled to London, Tate Gallery, February 10-April 12, 1982, no. 152

Engraved

T. Landseer, 1864 (with several differences)
J. C. Webb for Library Edition, 1881-93, I, pl. 60

Lot Essay

This unusual hunting picture set in a dark snowy winter landscape, was painted by 1864, and is a different departure for Landseer from his more conventional hunting scenes. It shows, as Richard Ormond points out in the Landseer exhibition catalogue, "a reassuring vision of the countryside and of country pursuits on a cold day."

Henry William Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore (d. 1891) was the founder of the prosperous firm of silk brokers H. W. Eaton & Sons. He was Member of Parliament for Coventry between 1865 and 1880 and again from 1881 to 1887, when he was raised to the peerage at Queen Victoria's Jubilee. He was a great collector and friend of Landseer, whose most famous painting The Monarch of the Glen was in his collection along with No Hunting 'Till the Weather Breaks until after his death in 1892 when they were both sold at Christie's.