Live Auction 20659The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures
James Seymour (1702-1752)
Lot 28 THE B.J. EASTWOOD COLLECTION: IMPORTANT SPORTING AND IRISH ART

James Seymour (1702-1752)

Lord Portmore's 'Snap', a saddled chestnut hunter held by a groom, with a setter in a landscape

Closed9 July 2021

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James Seymour (1702-1752)
Lord Portmore's 'Snap', a saddled chestnut hunter held by a groom, with a setter in a landscape
signed and dated 'J. Seymour/1743/Snap' (lower left)
oil on canvas
41 x 48 in. (104.1 x 122 cm.)
Painted in 1743.

Major Guy Paget, Wheeler House, Husbands Bosworth, by 1928.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 June 1972, lot 26 (10,000 gns. to Ackerman).
R.A. McCalpine.
with Roy Miles Fine Painting, London, where acquired for the present collection.

Specialist note


Charles ‘Beau’ Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, was a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1726 and 1730. In 1739 he served as a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital, a charity dedicated to the salvation of abandoned children. Master of Horse to King George II and a leading racehorse owner, he was a key patron of Seymour, commissioning at least eight works from the artist. The inscription ‘Snap’, below the artist’s signature and date, may have been added by a slightly later hand.

We are grateful to Richard Wills for his assistance in cataloguing this picture.