Margaret Newton (née Coningsby), Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt
Date:
ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 74.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.620
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
dog (animal) | animals | horse (animal) | field | sky | hunting | horseback riding | riding (traveling) | woman | countess | rural | manor | forest | building | grasses | hill | banquet hall | gold braid | portrait | sporting art | whip | park (grounds) | hat | riding boots | riding habits | bridle | costume
Associated Places:
Westhampnett | Goodwood Park | Carne's Seat | England | West Sussex | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sidesaddle, 1690-1935 (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2018-09-07 - 2019-03-24)The Chronicle of the Horse in Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2016-08-26 - 2017-04-26)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
A Stubbs Fetches 17,000 Gns, Financial Times, London, November 19, 1966, p. 9, Financial TimesChristie's : Important English pictures to be auctioned, Illustrated London News, London, October 29,1966, p. 38, Gale Primary SourcesChristie's (UK), Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of important English pictures : 18 November 1966, Christie's, London, November 18, 1966, p. 45, Lot 117, Fiche 51 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 216-217, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 40, no. 11, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Diane Duacsek, Selected Horses of George Stubbs in the 1999 Exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art [Phd Dissertation, California State University], Carson, CA, p. 63, no. 17, Proquest Dissertations and Theses GlobalJudy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 65-66, no. 66, pl. 24, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 53, 57, no. 29, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 138, no. 13, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA)English Pictures Make £146,947, Financial Times, London, November 19, 1966, p. 11, Financial TimesIn the sales rooms stubbs portrait bought for 17,000 gns, The Times (London), London, November 19, 1966, p. 13, Gale Primary SourcesErica I. Nuckles, "Remarks on a march" : A female perspective on gender, rank, and imperial identities during the French and Indian War [PhD Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany], Albany: New York, p. 61, Proquest Dissertations and Theses GlobalConstance-Anne Parker, Mr. Stubbs the horse painter, J. A. Allen, London, 1971, p. 39, ND497.S93 P37 + Oversize (YCBA)Claudia P. Pfeiffer, Chronicle of the Horse in art, National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, Virginia, 2016, pp.2, 3, 50-51.110 [fn 55], pl. 18, N7668.H6 P44 2016 (YCBA)Sales by Auction; Christies: The oldest fine art aucioneers in the world, The Times (London), London, November 8, 1966, p. 19, The Times Digital ArchiveAmanda Booth Springs, The Advance of the Mobile Woman : Representations of British women's physical mobility 1660-1820 [PhD Dissertation, City University of New York], New York, p. 152, no. 24, Proquest Dissertations and Theses GlobalJohn Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 28, fig. 3, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)