Lot 93: JOHN DALBY

MOUNTING AT COVERTSIDE; HUNSTMAN AND WHIPPER IN WITH HOUNDS GOING TO DRAW; FULL CRY CROSSING THE ROAD; CROSSING A BROOK: A SET OF FOUR PAINTINGS OF THE MIDDLETON HUNT
the first, second and fourth signed Dalby (lower left); the third signed Dalby (lower right)

each: 9 1/4 by 15 in. 23.5 by 38.1 cm

each: oil on canvas

Sale: Christie's, New York, June 10, 1983, lot 163
The Household International Corporate Collection, Prospect Heights, Illinois (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 1998, lot 19, illustrated)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

The Middleton Hunt, held at Birdsall on the Yorkshire wolds, began with Sir Thomas Gascoigne who established the country between 1764 and 1773. The Duke of Hamilton took over in that year for two seasons. From 1804 until 1832, the Sykeses of Sledmere had Gascoigne's old boundaries re-established. The Middleton dynasty began with the two-season Mastership (1832-53) of the 6th Baron Willoughby.