Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 54. The Essex Hunt, 1831; The Start of the Hunt at Matching Green; Full Cry from Leading Roothing to High Easter; Gone to Ground at Man Wood with a view of Hatfield Broad Oak beyond; The Kill from Dunnon High Wood at Easton Lodge, the seat of the Right. Hon. Lord Maynard (set of 4).

Dean Wolstenholme the elder

The Essex Hunt, 1831; The Start of the Hunt at Matching Green; Full Cry from Leading Roothing to High Easter; Gone to Ground at Man Wood with a view of Hatfield Broad Oak beyond; The Kill from Dunnon High Wood at Easton Lodge, the seat of the Right. Hon. Lord Maynard (set of 4)

Auction Closed

January 31, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dean Wolstenholme the elder

1757 - 1837

oil on canvas

canvas: 19 by 26 in.; 48.3 by 66 cm (each)

framed: 24 7/8 by 31 3/4 in.; 63.5 by 80.6 cm (each)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Christie's London, Sporting Art, 19 May 2006, lot 6

The Essex Hunt was founded in 1785 by Messrs. J. & D. Rounding. When they retired as Masters in 1805, new boundaries were constituted and H. J. Conyers was appointed Master of the hunt. Conyers devoted over 40 years to the hunt and was a dependable patron of the English animal painter Dean Wolstenholme Sr.. The present set of four paintings is an autograph replica of a set originally commissioned by Mr. Thomas Hodgson who is recognizable amongst the figures depicted together with his brothers, John and the Reverend Henry, rector of Debden. Conyers, the Reverend J. Arkwright (on the grey), Lord Petre and Mr. Beale Colvin of Pishobury are also identifiable.

The set was also engraved in 1831 by Dean Wolstenholme Jr (1798-1883) and several versions exist by both father and son. The Essex Hunt was particularly fashionable in the 19th century given its close proximity to London; then, as now, it lay across Essex about 35 miles, north to south, and 21 miles in breadth from east to west.