Wyndham Bolling Blanton was the son of Charles Armistead and Elizabeth Wallace Blanton, and was named for his father's cousin, Wyndham Bolling. He inherited from this first cousin once removed two pictures of fox-hunting scenes, commissioned around 1800 by Blanton's great-grandfather, Bartholomew Trueheart, [1770-1834]. Painted by an unknown itinerant artist, they are said to include Trueheart on horseback as the central figure, in the environs his estate in Powhatan County, Virginia. Blanton sold the paintings in 1948 to American folk art collectors Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.