Attributed to Charles Hancock (1802-1877) Sir Joseph Hawley's Fernhill a dark bay racehorse with...

Attributed to Charles Hancock (1802-1877)

Sir Joseph Hawley's Fernhill a dark bay racehorse with jockey up

Oil on canvas

47 x 61cm; 18½ x 24in

Provenance:

Leggatt Brothers, 1935, £120 and thence by descent

Recently removed from Gavelacre House, Longparish

Fernhill won the Northamptonshire Stakes (£1225) and the Great Metropolitan Stakes (£1640) in 1849

Sir Joseph Hawley was a Wiltshire trainer who won all 5 of the British Classic flat races