Portrait of Thomas Boothby of Tooley Park (1677-1752), three-quarter-length, in a green coat, with a pair of dogs

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ATTRIBUTED TO JONATHAN RICHARDSON (LONDON 1665-1745)
Portrait of Thomas Boothby of Tooley Park (1677-1752), three-quarter-length, in a green coat, with a pair of dogs
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 in. (127.3 x 101.5 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) by descent from the sitter to his daughter,
Elizabeth d'Avenant, and by descent to her grandson,
Sir Corbet Corbet, born Corbet D'Avenant, 1st Baronet of the second creation (1752–1823).
Anonymous sale; Tennants, Leyburn, 18 July 2008, lot 1309.
with James Harvey British Art, Shaftesbury, April 2009, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Literature

J Gillies Shields, Old Tom of Tooley - father of the Quorn: his life and times, Leicestershire, 1998.

Exhibited

Leicester, Museum and Art Gallery, Sport in the Midlands: An Exhibition of Sporting Paintings and Drawings, 1928.

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Lot Essay

Thomas Boothby is best known as the founder of the Quorn Hunt, which traces its origin to his pack of hounds established in 1696 on the death of his father. He was the Master of the pack for fifty-five years, the longest serving of any of the Masters the hunt has known, and on his death The Gentleman's Magazine wrote that he had been, 'one of the greatest sportsmen in England.'

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