Lot 38: JOHN  WOOTTON

THE  PROPERTY  OF  A  GENTLEMAN
SNITTERFIELD,  WARWICKSHIRE  CIRCA  1678  -  1764  LONDON
A  HUNTING  PARTY;  POSSIBLY  DEPICTING  CHARLES  SPENCER,  3RD  DUKE  OF  MARLBOROUGH  (1706-1758)  AND  HIS  WIFE  ELIZABETH,  COUNTESS  OF  MARLBOROUGH  (D.1761)
signed,  lower  centre:  JWootton
oil  on  canvas
93  by  147  cm.;  36  ½  by  58  in.

Mrs. Ashton Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Queens Gate, London;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 30 June 1926, lot 112, for 320 gns. to Ellis and Smith;
With Knoedler, by 1928;
Percy R. Pyne, Rivington House, Roslyn, Long Island;
William de Krafft;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 29 November 1963, lot 60, for £6,400, to Leggatt;
Acquired by the father of the present owner.