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Thomas Freeman, Lord Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dog and a shot doe by 
																	George Stubbs

George Stubbs

( British, 1724 - 1806 )

Thomas Freeman, Lord Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dog and a shot doe

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.20 in. (102.10 cm.) (height) by 50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Geo: Stubbs pin[xit] / 1803' (lower centre)

Literature:

B. Taylor, Stubbs, London, 1971, pp. 39 and 215, under no. 132. Evening Standard, 24 May 1977, p. 16, illustrated. R. Fountain and A. Gates, Stubbs' Dogs, The Hounds and Domestic Dogs of the Eighteenth Century as seen though the Paintings of George Stubbs, Westport, CT, 1984, pp. 53 and 99, no. 67a, fig. 28. J. Edgerton, George Stubbs, Painter, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 620, no. 335A.

Provenance:

(Probably) Henry Uttrick Reay (1750-1828), Killingworth House, Northumberland, and by descent to his daughter, Elizabeth Bell, wife of Matthew Bell (1793-1871), Woolsington Hall, Northumberland, and by inheritance to his nephew, William Lorraine Bell, Woolsington Hall, Northumberland; Christie's, London, 31 March 1922, lot 127. with the Sporting Gallery & Bookstore, New York. with William Wallace, New York, from whom purchased in 1938 by the following, Henry P. McIlhenny, Philadelphia, by whom gifted to the following, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, by whom de-accessioned. with Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, by 1977, when acquired by the following, The Hon. Simon Sainsbury (1930-2006), London; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 101 (£169,250), when acquired by the present owner.

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