Lot 98: HENRY H. CROSS

AMERICAN, 1837-1918
MARCUS DALY'S CHILD OF THE MIST

measurements
89 1/2 by 119 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
227.3 by 303.5 cm

signed H.H. Cross and dated 1892 (lower right)

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Commissioned by Marcus Daly, Butte, Montana, 1892
Thence by descent to his daughter
Derrold Slaven, Carmen, Idaho
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, June 9, 1989, lot 269, illustrated
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

NOTE

In the early 1890s Marcus Daly, who had emigrated from Ireland in 1841, retained Cross to paint 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.