Portrait of a Racehorse, Possibly Disguise, the Property of the Duke of Hamilton, with Jockey Up
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
33 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (85.1 x 108 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "g garrard | 17 6"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.23
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
rural | racecourse | track | pasture | post | equestrian | man | jockey | riding boots | bridle | saddle | fence | field
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)Paintings on Loan to The Trustees' Room Belmont Park from the English Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Belmont Park, 1968 - 1968)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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. 71, no. 93, ND1388 G7 A78 (YCBA)Christie's Sale Catalogue : Catalogue of English pictures and drawings 1700-1950 : 15 November 1980, Christie's, London, November 18, 1960, p. 23, no. 103, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : catalogue of English pictures and drawings, 1700-1950 : 18 November 1960, Christie's, London, 18 Nov 1960, p. 23, lot 103, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAStephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 43, no. 32, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 179 (v.1), no. 343, pl. 94, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 81 (v.1), no. 290, pl. 21, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Sydney H Paviere, A dictionary of British sporting painters, F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, England, 1980, p. 171, ND1388 G7 P38 1980 (LC) + Oversize (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, At home to sporting art : the Brick House, Essays of Friends of British Sporting Art, no. 33, The British Sporting Art Trust, Summer 1997, p. 5, N8250 .B751 (YCBA)The Yale Center for British Art : An Anniversary Celebration of Paul Mellon's Great Legacy, , Apollo, April 2007, p. 63, fig. 4, N5220 M552 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Appeared as April 2007 issue of Apollo; all of the articles may also be found in bound Apollo Volume [N1 A54 165:2 +]Angus Trumble, Diversions of the Field, Apollo, v. 165, no. 542, April 2007, pp. 62, 63, fig. 4, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 82, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 26 (v.1), no. 95, pl. 21, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)