£4,000
Circle of Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767 - 1849, Swiss) - A bay racehorse held by a trainer in an extensive landscape, unsigned, oil on canvas, 75.5 x 99cm, framed
+ Provenance - Robert C. de Grey Vyner, Newby Hall, Yorkshire, and by descent to Robin Compton.
Christie's, London, 23 July 1978, lot 62, as by 'Ben Marshall'.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 19 July 1985, lot 13, as 'Attributed to Abraham Cooper'.
Christie's London, 21 May 2004, lot 81. Property of the Garden State Race Track, New York.
Bonhams, London, 25 Jan 2012, lot 14.
Bonhams, Edinburgh, 21 Jun 2012, lot 241.
** Notes: Christie's lot essay 21st May 2004. "Traditionally this painting was wrongly identified as a portrait of Eleanor. She was in fact a bright bay with black legs and a white sock on her near hind. Her owner was Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury (1740-1821) whose colours were pink and white stripes, not red with white sleeves as seen here.
The gentleman in the long red coat bears some resemblance to one of the leading Newmarket trainers Richard Prince, although this scene is clearly not Newmarket. Prince's main owner, Colonel Henry Mellish, had colours of crimson sleeves and a white body (i.e. the reverse of what is shown here) with a crimson cap and white ribbon".
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