Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I

Francis Stringer

Samuel Frith with his Huntsman Jack Owen and Hounds. Chapel-En-Le-Frith Derbyshire

Auction Closed

January 31, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Francis Stringer

1740 - 1790

Samuel Frith with his Huntsman Jack Owen and Hounds. Chapel-En-Le-Frith Derbyshire

oil on canvas

canvas: 60 by 91 3/4 in.; 152.4 by 233 cm

framed: 69 3/4 by 103 1/2 in.; 177 by 262.8 cm

The canvas is lined. The paint surface is stable and in good condition but soiled. Patterns of craquelure in places throughout. Under UV light, areas of retouching throughout, notably a tear repair at lower center of approximately four in inches in length, to a horizontal scratch in the lower right quadrant.

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Samuel Frith, Bank Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire
Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 1994, lot 28

This painting was commissioned by Samuel Frith (1753-1828) of Bank Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith, to commemorate a memorable day's hunting on December 8, 1878. He and his huntsmen stand in a field called The Hayes, above Bank Hall.

Frith was an agent for the Duke f Devonshire at Chatsworth. He was also a J.P. and High Sheriff in 1791. In 1803, he became a Captain of Bowden Chapel Volunteers, and two years later, Colonel Commandant of the North High Peak Battalion.