Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Title:
Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath
Date:
ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:
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
Subject Terms:
sporting art | portrait | genre subject | hats | coats | riding boots | tricornes | breeches (trousers) | fence | staff (walking stick) | whips (animal equipment) | stables | racecourse | fields (agricultural land) | farmland | gate | racing | riding (traveling) | running | men | jockeys | equestrians | spectators | gesture | sitting | horses (animals)
Associated Places:
Newmarket | Suffolk | Europe | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10)

Summer Exhibition (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 1988-07-14 - 1988-10-15)

Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
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, pp. 39-40, fig. 21, ND1388 G7 A78 (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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Walter Shaw Sparrow, British sporting artists from Barlow to Herring, Scribner, London New York, 1922, pp. 89-113, ND1385 S6 (YCBA) +
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1164