Live Auction 10644Christie's Interiors
Studio of John Wootton (Snitterfield, Warwicks c. 1682-1764 London)
Lot 464

Studio of John Wootton (Snitterfield, Warwicks c. 1682-1764 London)

Viscount Weymouth's hunt: The death of the fox; Coming at the death; and Returning from the chase

Closed15 April 2015

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GBP 4,500

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Studio of John Wootton (Snitterfield, Warwicks c. 1682-1764 London)
Viscount Weymouth's hunt: The death of the fox; Coming at the death; and Returning from the chase
oil on copper
21 x 21 in . ( 53.3 x 53.3 cm.); and smaller
(3)three in the lot

with Arthur Ackermann & Son, London.
The Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conneticut.
Paintings from The Paul Mellon Collection; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1981, lot 47.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 1984, lot 255.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 5 June 1993, lot 84.

Specialist note

These three paintings are reduced versions of three of the set of six large hunting series painted for the Hall at Longleat for Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710-1751). They were probably painted as models for the engravings.