John Wootton

Major Dermot McCalmont (1887-1968), Cheveley Park, Newmarket;

His sale, London, Christie's, 26 November 1920, lot 139;

Where acquired by "Martin," for 57 guineas;

J. Rochelle Thomas (1866-1938), by 1931;

Acquired by John Crichton-Stuart (1881-1947), 4th Marquess of Bute, London, 1932;

Thence by descent until sold (The Bute Sporting Sale), London, Christie's, 27 May 1999, lot 4;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

F. Siltzer, Newmarket: Its Sport and Personalities, London 1923, pp. 122-123;

The Loan Exhibition of Sporting Pictures in Aid of the London Foot Hospital, exhibition catalogue, London 1931, pp. 6, 10, cat. no. 7;

W.S. Sparrow, British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, London 1965, p. 111;

A. Meyer, John Wootton, 1682-1764, Landscapes and sporting art in early Georgian England, exhibition catalogue, London 1984, pp. 14, 30, 32-33, cat. no. 3, reproduced;

C. Yarger, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 120-121, 175, cat. no. 28, reproduced.

London, 144 Piccadilly, Loan Exhibition of Sporting Pictures in Aid of the London Foot Hospital, 6 - 20 February 1931, no. 7 (lent by J. Rochelle Thomas);

London, The Turf Club, long-term loan, beginning 1969;

London, Kenwood House, John Wootton, 1682-1764, Landscapes and sporting art in early Georgian England, 4 July - 30 September 1984, no. 3 (lent by the Marquess of Bute);

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, long-term loan, 2023 - 2025.