'Elis', beating Colonel Peel's 'Slane': 300 guineas, Newmarket, 1837
Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785 – London 1851)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1837 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
705 x 622 mm (16 1/4 x 23 3/8 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271093
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Elis', beating Colonel Peel's 'Slane': 300 guineas, Newmarket, 1837 by Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785 – London 1851), signed and dated: H. ALKEN 1837. Two horses galloping to the winning post at Newmarket. Elis, foaled in 1833. never actually belonged to Lord Lichfield - he was trained at Lichfield's stables at Goodwood. First horse to be transported in specially constructed horse box on record.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960)
Marks and inscriptions
1837 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785 – London 1851), artist
References
Egerton 1978 Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings (Mellon Collection), 1978, no. 289