James Seymour

A coursing party: a lady and gentleman on horseback, a huntsman holding a dead hare with two greyhounds in a wooded landscape

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

April 6, 03:16 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Hampshire Private Collection

James Seymour

London 1702 - 1752

A coursing party: a lady and gentleman on horseback, a huntsman holding a dead hare with two greyhounds in a wooded landscape

oil on canvas

unframed: 84.4 x 132.3 cm.; 33¼ x 52⅛ in.

framed: 102.4 x 150.2 cm.; 40⅜ x 59⅛ in.

Alice, Countess of Ludlow (1862-1945);
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 18 February 1944, lot 114, for 68 Guineas to Barnet;
Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 4th Bt. (1891-1971);
Derek Henry Parker-Bowles (1915-77);
By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 25 November 1977, lot 49;
With Arthur Ackermann & Sons, London, July 1978;
Probably from whom acquired.

A. Vandervall and C. Coles, Game and the English Landscape: the influence of the chase on sporting art and scenery, London 1980, reproduced p. 84.

This painting, datable to the 1740s, will be included as cat. no. 125a, in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Seymour's work by Richard Wills, published by Pallas Athene Books Ltd.

Note on provenance

Lady Ludlow was wife of Henry Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow. She had previously married Sir Julius Wernher, and was painted by Sargent.