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Provenance

Painted for Thomas Grosvenor (assumed surname Egerton in 1821), 2nd Earl of Wilton [1799-1882], Heaton Hall, Lancashire; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton [1833-1885], Heaton Hall; by inheritance to his wife, Elizabeth, Countess of Wilton [d. 1919]; her estate; (sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 16 May 1928, no. 155, as A Country Race Meeting);[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York and London); purchased July 1928 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[2] bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1] The catalogue for the Sotheby's sale listed the painting as "The Property of the late Elizabeth Countess of Wilton, Sold by Order of the Dowager, Viscountess Deerhurst."

[2] Guy Paget, in "Ben Marshall and John Ferneley," Apollo 40 (August 1944): 36, fig. XVI, credits the reproduction of the painting to Hamilton Bruce of Baltimore. Bruce has not yet been further identified, but he was possibly a relation of Mrs. Bruce's husband, David K.E. Bruce, whose family lived in Baltimore.

Exhibition History

1989
Extended loan for use by The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1989-1994.

Bibliography

1931
Paget, Major Guy. The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley (1782-1860). Leicester and New York, 1931: 71, 72, 138, repro. opp. 70.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 126, repro., as In the Paddock.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 597, color repro.
1978
Egerton, Judy. British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867: the Paul Melllon Collection. London, 1978: 243.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 408, no. 582, color repro., as In the Paddock.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 152, repro., as In the Paddock
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 72-73, repro. 73.

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