'The First Leap': Lord Alexander Russell (1821-1907), on his pony 'Emerald' (after Landseer )
John Sargent Noble (1848-1896)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
343 x 445 mm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884994
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'The First Leap': Lord Alexander Russell (1821-1907), on his pony 'Emerald' (after Landseer ) by John Sargent Noble (1848-1896), circa 1860. A view of a boy, with a whip in his right hand, on a pony jumping over a log into a field with goat and her two kids in a landscape. This is a copy of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's 1829 painting, 'The First Leap' of Lord Alexander Russell, on his pony 'Emerald', probably at his father's (John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford 1766-1839) lodge in Glen Feshie in the Cairngorms, 1829. The original is in the Guildhall Art Gallery in the collection of the City of London.
Provenance
From the bequest of Mr. Reginal B. Wilson, St. Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, in 1994.
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: J.S.NOBLE (in black on gilt plaque screwed to frame)
Makers and roles
John Sargent Noble (1848-1896), artist