Sale 205 Lot 1087

BENJAMIN MARSHALL (English, 1767-1865). A Gentleman with a Bay Hunter and Terrier in a Landscape, Oil on canvas. Framed.

Lot Essay (See Christie's London, Sporting Art auction, 22 May 2003, Lot 37):
Stylistically this painting can be compared with Marshall's Portrait of the Hon. Peniston Lamb with his horse Assasin and dog Tanner illustrated in colour as the frontispiece of Walter Shaw Sparrow's George Stubbs and Ben Marshall, (London, 1929). That work, long given to Stubbs, is neither signed nor dated, but also shows in Lamb's portrait the influence of Lemuel Francis Abbott, to whom Marshall had been apprenticed between 1791 and 1794.

No dated Marshall is recorded before 1796 and the early horse portraits known from engravings in The Sporting Magazine do not show the ability of the present work. It is therefore likely that this painting and the Peniston Lamb portrait can be dated between 1797 and 1799 when the fine portrait of Diamond (Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center of British Art) was painted.


- 33 x 39.25 inches; frame: 38.5 x 44.5 inches
Estimate $12,000-14,000

Exhibited
London, Basil Dighton, 3 Savile Row, Old Sporting Prints, 1913, no. 121, illustrated as frontispiece (one of two oil paintings are in the exhibition).
London, Arthur Ackermann & Son, Ltd., Annual Exhibition of Sporting Paintings, 1982, no. 38.

Provenance:
with Arthur Ackermann & Son, Ltd., London;
Christie's, New York, 4 June 1982, lot 249;
Christie's London, Sporting Art, 22 May 2003, Lot 37;
There acquired