Set of Four Hunting. Plate I. Going out.; ...Plate II. Breaking Cover; ...Plate III. Running; ...Plate IV. The Death

by After Dean Wolstenholme, Senior

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very fine series from one of the greatest British sporting artists of his time Dean Wolstenholme Snr became an artist in middle life after losing his then not inconsiderable wealth in a property deal which went wrong. Before moving to London in about 1800 he had lived in Herfordshire and Essex, pursuing a happy life devoted to foxhunting and coursing, painting a little for his own pleasure. In London he had to paint in earnest, bringing to the city memories of his earlier

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