The Essex Hunt

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Sporting painter and engraver (Charles) Dean Wolstenholme the younger was born near Waltham Abbey, Essex; the son of animal painter Dean Wolstenholme (1757-1837). He was initially taught to paint by his father. He made engravings after works by himself, his father and others, and invented a colour printing process patented by Leighton Bros. He painted hunting and shooting scenes, historical subjects and views of well-known London brewery yards, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists. He was also a pigeon fancier and illustrated J. M. Eaton's ‘Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated and Fancy Pigeons’ (1852). He died at Highgate, Middlesex, just before his 85th birthday.

Places

England, Essex

Subjects

horseback, fox hunting, sport, topography, landscape C19th, genre, tree, night, dog, horse, man, road

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

(Charles) Dean, the younger Wolstenholme (1798 - 1882)

Title

The Essex Hunt

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 88.50 cm, width: 120.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Phillips, 14 February 1956

Inscription

none

Provenance

Sold through Phillips, Son & Neale on 14 February 1956 (Lot 220); from which sale purchased by the Ministry of Works

GAC number

3423