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- Title:
Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath [2023, YCBA]
- Date:
- ca. 1735
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 26 5/8 x 49 inches (67.6 x 124.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower center: "J. Wootton."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.706
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.706FR
- Subject Terms:
- breeches (trousers) | coats | equestrians | farmland | fence | fields (agricultural land) | gate | genre subject | gesture | hats | horses (animals) | jockeys | men | portrait | racecourse | racing | riding (traveling) | riding boots | running | sitting | spectators | sporting art | stables | staff (walking stick) | tricornes | whips (animal equipment)
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Newmarket | Suffolk | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1164
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Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Summer Exhibition (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 1988-07-14 - 1988-10-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British sporting painting, 1650-1850, [catalogue of an exhibition held at the] Hayward Gallery, London 13 December 1974-23 February 1975, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, 8 March-6 April 1975, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 25 April-25 May, 1975 , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1974, pp. 39-40, fig. 21, ND1388 G7 A78 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : English pictures c. 1600 - c. 1800 : 2 April 1971, Christie's, April 2, 1971, p. 28, Lot 94, DealerCat Christie's (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Important pictures & drawings of the early English school and works by Old Master : 28 February 1913, Christie's, February 28, 1913, Lot 45, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 258-259, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 22, 44, no. 48, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 24-25, no. 25, pl. 8, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Red letter days : British sporting art of the 18th and 19th centuries : Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Center Gallery, November 10, 1990-February 11, 1991.", , Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., 1990, pp. 14, 16, 30, no. 12, N8250 R44 1990 [ORBIS]
Walter Shaw Sparrow, British sporting artists from Barlow to Herring, Scribner, London New York, 1922, pp. 89-113, ND1385 S6 (YCBA) + [YCBA]