Lot 300: HENRY H. CROSS 1837-1918

signed and dated lower right H.H. Cross 1892

oil on canvas, unframed

89 1/2 by 119 1/2 in.; 227.33 by 303.53cm

Commissioned by Marcus Daly, Butte, Montana, 1892;
Thence by descent to his daughter;
Derrold Slaven, Carmen, Idaho;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, June 9, 1989, lot 269;
There purchased by the present collector.

In the early 1890s Marcus Daly, who had emigrated from Ireland in 1841, retained Cross to paint for him at his horse ranch in Montana. Child of the Mist, foaled at Newmarket in 1892, had been a highly successful racehorse in England before being imported to America in 1890. Daly commissioned this portrait to honor the horse's many successful offspring.

The stretcher is incribed To Marcus Daly. Esq- H.H. Cross-Anaconda, Montana.