Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 7th March 2018

Lot 46

Benjamin Killingbeck (fl. 1769-1783) A dark bay hunter held by a groom with The Fourth Viscount...

Estimate £8,000 - £12,000

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Description

Benjamin Killingbeck (fl. 1769-1783)

A dark bay hunter held by a groom with The Fourth Viscount Galway's beagles, by a stable block

Oil on canvas

55 x 66cm; 21½ x 26in

Provenance:

Col. The Viscount Galway D.S.O., O.B.E., Legatt Brothers, September 1934 as George Stubbs £500 and thence by descent

Recently removed from Gavelacre House, Longparish

Sir Robert Mockton-Arundell, The Fourth Viscount Galway (1752-1810) was a british politician, MP for Pontefract and later York