Lot 22
  • 22

Harry Hall

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Harry Hall
  • The Mare Perhaps and a foal at Newmarket
  • signed and dated l.r.: H. HALL. Newmarket/ 1845; indistinctly inscribed on the remains of the artist's label attached to the stretcher: Harry Hall/ Newmarket, Suffolk/ & no.16 Gt. Queen Street. Lincolns Inn
  • oil on canvas
  • 87 by 112cm., 34ΒΌ by 44in.

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby's London, 12th March 1986, lot 129

Literature

Charles Lane, Harry Hall's Classic Winners, 1990, p.24

Condition

STRUCTURE The canvas has been relined. PAINT SURFACE The paint surface is in good, clean condition; ready to hang. ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT UV light reveals a few scattered areas of cosmetic retouching to the thatched roof, the the horses and the feed barrow, lower right. FRAME Held in a fine plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
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