The Enfield Chace Hunt

細節

Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards (British, 1878-1966)
The Enfield Chace Hunt
signed 'Lionel Edwards' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'Enfield Chase [sic] - 1951' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1951.

來源

Possibly Captain Mahon, Hertfordshire (according to an indistinct inscription on the stretcher).
with Richard Green, London, from whom purchased by the present owner.

拍品專文

The present hunt was founded in 1907 by Major George Smith-Bosanquet of Broxbournebury and was originally known as Major Smith-Bosanquet's Hunt, although its origins lie with the stag hunts of the 1st Marchioness of Salisbury. The hunt was renamed the Enfield Chace Hunt in 1935 on the retirement of the founder. The spelling of Chace is most probably Norman in origin. The hunt's treasurer, Arthur Lucas of Woolmers at Letty Green, gave the hunt the use of the house and some land at Birch Farm in White Stubbs Lane, ensuring its survival for a while longer, and for a time Birch Farm became the kennels for the hunt. The hunt's territory covered most of eastern Hertfordshire and it even hunted as far northwards as Henlow in Bedfordshire. The Enfield Chace Hunt amalgamated with the Cambridgeshire Hunt in 2001 to become the Cambridgeshire with Enfield Chace Hunt.

For a note on the artist please see lot 1.