拍品 1022
1022
DOROFIELD HARDY, 20TH CENTURY, AFTER JOHN FREDERICK HERRING, SEN.
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DOROFIELD HARDY, 20TH CENTURY, AFTER JOHN FREDERICK HERRING, SEN.

THE FINISH OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER 1840: LAUNCELOT, A BLACK RACEHORSE, WITH WILLIAM SCOTT UP, WINNING FROM MAROON, A BAY RACEHORSE; BOTH COLTS WERE OWNED BY THE MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER, AND BOTH JOCKEYS ARE WEARING THE MARQUESS'S RACING COLOURS OF YELLOW SILKS AND BLACK CAP

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DOROFIELD HARDY, 20TH CENTURY, AFTER JOHN FREDERICK HERRING, SEN.
THE FINISH OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER 1840: LAUNCELOT, A BLACK RACEHORSE, WITH WILLIAM SCOTT UP, WINNING FROM MAROON, A BAY RACEHORSE; BOTH COLTS WERE OWNED BY THE MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER, AND BOTH JOCKEYS ARE WEARING THE MARQUESS'S RACING COLOURS OF YELLOW SILKS AND BLACK CAP
signed, inscribed and dated 'Dorofield Hardy, 1931 a trial race between two of lord grosvenor's racehorses' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
27¼ x 41 in. (70 x 104 cm.)
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Launcelot, a black colt, was owned and bred by Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, by Camel out of Banter, by Master Henry, by Orville who had won the St. Leger in 1802, who was by Beningborough who had won the St. Leger in 1794. The original composition by Herring, which is signed and dated 1840, is first recorded in the collection of Lord Woolavington and was later in the celebrated collection of sporting pictures formed by Mr and Mrs Jack R. Dick (see O. Beckett, J. F. Herring & Sons, London and New York, 1981. p. 111, no. 118, illustrated pl. 9.)