A Cock and Hen Pheasant

The majority of Thorburn's pictures of pheasant are painted in the woods of Gertrude Jekyll's 'Old West Surrey', following Thorburn's move to Hascombe in 1902. This example is comparable, though more brilliantly coloured in the plummage of the cock pheasant, to Running before the Beaters, which sold for £40,250 at Christie's London, 14 May 1996, lot 158.