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Horses exercising on Newmarket Heath

attributed to John Wootton (Snitterfield c.1682 – London 1764)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

circa 1750

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

845 x 1499 mm (33 1/4 x 59 in)

Place of origin

Newmarket

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Collection

Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire

NT 515459

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, Horses exercising on Newmarket Heath, attributed to John Wootton (Snitterfield c.1682 – London 1765), circa 1750. A view of Warren Heath with race horses exercising on the heath, a group of equestrian figures in the foreground. Newmarket town on left, and on the horizon of the fenland landscape, Ely Cathedral, right. Label on frame 'Newmarket Heath circa 1750, J. Wootton, 1690-1765. Exhibited at the Exhibition of British Art at the Royal Academy 1934'.

Provenance

Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.

Credit line

Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)

Marks and inscriptions

Recto: Inscribed gilt label affixed to bottom of frame: Newmarket Heath circa 1750. 1690 J. Wootton 1765

Makers and roles

attributed to John Wootton (Snitterfield c.1682 – London 1764), publisher

References

Bryden 1931 H. A. Bryden, “Sporting Pictures at Anglesey Abbey”, I, Country Life, LXIX, 24 Jan 1931, , pp.110 1, and reproduced: Exhibition of British Art, c.1000-1860 (exh cat) Royal Academy, London, 6 January-17 March 1934, p.18, no.51: Antique Collector, December 1951: The Antique Collector, Vol.22, No.6, December, 1951, p.239 Anglesey Abbey, 1990-1992 [The National Trust; Robin Fedden] 1972, revised 1990, reprinted 1992., p.16: Anglesey Abbey, 2006 [The National Trust] 2002, revised 2006, p.8 and seen in the overall photograph of the Oak Room on p.8:

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