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Description: | Oil on canvas. This painting is thought to depict a horse belonging to Governor-General and first Viceroy of India Charles John Canning, Earl Canning (1812-1862). There are two paintings of ‘Lord Canning's Hunter’ in the Government Art Collection: this and another by an unknown artist, less skilfully painted and showing the horse ‘held by a native groom’ (see GAC 1420). The later painting is apparently based on this work and may have been painted in India. The artist of this work has yet to be confirmed but the painting closely resembles works by French equestrian painter Alfred de Dreaux (1810-1860), whose horse portraits were popular in England and who worked in the UK for a time, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1850 and 1851.
Canning bequeathed his property to his sister's younger son, Hubert de Burgh (later Lord Clanricarde). ‘The Indian Collection of the Late Earl Canning’ was sold through Christie’s in March 1863. However, on Clanricarde’s death in 1916, Canning’s other property passed to Clanricarde’s great-nephew Lord Lascelles (later Earl of Harewood). How this work left the family collection has yet to be established. | Subjects: | saddle British School C19th fox hunting horse stable | Temporal: | 1850-1862; 1850/1862 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | unknown, British 19th century | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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