Three horses and two huntsmen with a hound, in a wooded landscape

The description of the painting in the 1933 sale catalogue identifies the two figures as second horsemen belonging to a private pack of foxhounds, whose kennels were at Quarley, Hampshire, and which probably formed the origin of the Tidworth Hounds. In 1787, the Quarley estate was owned by Richard Cox (1718-1803), and although it has not been possible to determine with certainty, the painting may have passed by descent to the seller in 1933, Mrs. Algernon Cox.

Francis Sartorius was the first in a dynasty of painters to establish the family's name for sporting art, a tradition continued by his son, John Nost Sartorius, and grandson, John Francis Sartorius.