Lot 32: Viscount Weymouth's hunt: The death of the fox; Coming at the death; and Returning from the chase

Studio of John Wootton (1682-1764) Viscount Weymouth's hunt: The death of the fox; Coming at the death; and Returning from the chase oil on copper 20 ½ x 18 ¼ in. (52.1 x 46.3 cm.); 21 x 21 in . ( 53.3 x 53.3 cm.); 20 ¾ x 17 ¼ in. (51.4 x 43.8 cm.) (3)three in the lot

52.1 x 46.3 cm.

Judie Egerton, British Sporting & Animal Painting 1655-1867, Tate for the Yale Centre, 1978, cat. no. 24.

with Arthur Ackermann & Son, London. The Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conneticut. Paintings from The Paul Mellon Collection; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1981, lot 47. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 1984, lot 255. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 5 June 1993, lot 84.

These three paintings are reduced versions of three of the set of six large hunting series painted for the Hall at Longleat for Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710-1751). They were probably painted as models for the engravings.