Lamprey, with His Owner Sir William Morgan, at Newmarket
Date:
1723
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
41 x 49 1/2 inches (104.1 x 125.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown paint, lower center: "J Wootton"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.705
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
animal art | horses (animals) | men | racing | hats | breeches (trousers) | tricornes | riding boots | staffs (walking sticks) | tricorne | coat | saddle | waistcoat | racecourse | stables | sporting art
Associated Places:
England | Newmarket | Suffolk | Europe | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
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, p. 37, no. 20, ND1388 G7 A78 (YCBA)Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 56, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAMalcolm 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)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 19, no. 19, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Hornby Castle, Historical and descriptive catalogue of pictures belonging to his grace the Duke of Leeds., Darling & Son, Ltd., London, 1902, p. 13, no. 24, Available online : HathiTrustSir Oliver Millar, Notes on the Royal Collection - I, John Wootton, William Hogarth, and Frederick, Prince of Wales , Burlington Magazine, vol. CIII, London, September 1961, pp. 384, N1 +B87 103 (YCBA)Rutland Gallery, Paintings by John Wootton, circa 1677-1765, Rutland Gallery, London, p. 20 (?), cat. no. 18, NJ18 W86 R87 1963 (LC)+Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, p. 59, N8250 W35 (YCBA) +Malcolm Warner, Stubbs and the Horse, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 14, fig. 8, NJ18 St915 W37 (YCBA)Richard Wills, James Seymour, 1701-1752, London, 2023, p.62, fig.25, NJ18 .Se95 W55 2023 (YCBA) Oversize