Hounds and monkeys trapping partridge in a landscape

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Hounds and monkeys trapping partridge in a landscape
oil on canvas
56 1/4 x 80 3/8 in. (143 x 204.3 cm.)
inscribed variously with the names of the animals 'Excony', 'Phillis', 'Chance', 'Luky', 'Jinny (?)', 'Adonis'.

Provenance

with Christopher Gibbs Ltd., London, from whom acquired by Robin Hambro, June 1980.

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

The arrangement of the setter and partridges relates to a mezzotint by John Smith after Francis Barlow in the British Museum from the 1680s (no. 1876,1111.33).

We are grateful to Nathan Flis for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.

Altri da The Robin and Rupert Hambro Collection

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