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Heaton Park Races
John Ferneley1829
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Heaton Park Races
- Creator: John Ferneley
- Date Created: 1829
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 92 x 152.6 cm (36 1/4 x 60 1/16 in.) framed: 110.5 x 170.8 x 8.2 cm (43 1/2 x 67 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Painted for Thomas Grosvenor (assumed surname Egerton in 1821), 2nd earl of Wilton [1799-1882], Heaton Hall, Lancashire; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, 3rd earl of Wilton [1833-1885], Heaton Hall; by inheritance to his wife, Elizabeth, countess of Wilton [d. 1919]; her estate; (sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 16 May 1928, no. 155, as _A Country Race Meeting_);[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York and London); purchased July 1928 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[2] bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] The catalogue for the Sotheby's sale listed the painting as "The Property of the late Elizabeth Countess of Wilton, Sold by Order of the Dowager, Viscountess Deerhurst." [2] Guy Paget, in "Ben Marshall and John Ferneley," _Apollo_ 40 (August 1944): 36, fig. XVI, credits the reproduction of the painting to Hamilton Bruce of Baltimore. Bruce has not yet been further identified, but he was possibly a relation of Mrs. Bruce's husband, David K.E. Bruce, whose family lived in Baltimore.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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