Lot 229: WILLIAM BARRAUD | Sir Edmund Antrobus and the Old Surrey Fox Hounds at the foot of Addington Hills

oil on canvas

144.8 by 236.6 cm.; 57 by 93 in.

oil on canvas

The canvas has an old and sensitive relining and a varnish that appears even but discoloured. There are only a few scattered old damages that are visible to the naked eye, the retouchings along them have discoloured with age. There a some pinprick losses and small patches of lifting paint, not unusual for such a large canvas and whilst the picture would require some restoration attention it should respond well to cleaning. Inspection under ultra violet light confirms some restoration around small old damages in the sky, but very little restoration in the figures, hounds and horses who remain in very good condition with all of the details and colours well preserved. In very nice overall original condition.
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London, Royal Academy, 1838, no. 461, (as 'A Scene in Ottershaw Park');
London, Hutchinson House, formerly Derby House, National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, 1949–50, no. 248.

Art Weekly, London, 1 December 1928, p. 16, reproduced.

Colonel Moss Robinson;
Lady Lawrence, C.B.E.;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 14 December 1928, lot 95, to Ackermann for 1,155 guineas;
With Arthur Ackermann Ltd, London;
With Knoedler Gallery, New York;
Captain Eric V. Hale;
Walter Hutchinson (1887–1950);
His deceased sale ('The Hutchinson Collection of Important Sporting Pictures, sold by orders of the Messrs. Hutchinson & co.'), London, Christie's, 14 December 1951, lot 30;
Where acquired by a forebear of the current owner for 300 guineas;
Thence by descent.