British Pictures and Sporting Art

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Lot 227
  • 227

* John Frederick Herring Snr. Surrey 1795-1863 Meopham, Kent

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Description

  • John Frederick Herring Snr.
  • The Marquis of Westminster's Bay Racehorse Ghuznee with William Scott Up, On a Racecourse
  • oil on panel

Provenance

With Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd., London;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Deceased's Estate"), London, Christie's, April 15, 1988, lot 44;
There purchased by the present owner.

Catalogue Note

Ghuznee was a bay filly by Pantaloon out of Languish.  She was bred by the Marquis of Westminster in 1838 and, in 1841, won The Oaks.

The present painting was engraved by C. Hunt in 1841.