Live Auction 21921The Robin and Rupert Hambro Collection
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Lot 85

ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Hounds and monkeys trapping partridge in a landscape

Closed8 June 2023

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GBP 37,800

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Hounds and monkeys trapping partridge in a landscape
oil on canvas
56 1/4 x 80 3/8 in. (143 x 204.3 cm.)
inscribed variously with the names of the animals 'Excony', 'Phillis', 'Chance', 'Luky', 'Jinny (?)', 'Adonis'.

with Christopher Gibbs Ltd., London, from whom acquired by Robin Hambro, June 1980.

Specialist note


The arrangement of the setter and partridges relates to a mezzotint by John Smith after Francis Barlow in the British Museum from the 1680s (no. 1876,1111.33).

We are grateful to Nathan Flis for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.