45, ill., notes that John Frederick Sackville succeeded to the dukedom of Dorset in 1769, the year after the picture was painted supposes that the setting is Knole, the family seat. Katharine Baetjer in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1980–1981. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art-Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 8–May 9, 2013, no. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art-Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 6, 2012–January 4, 2013, no. "Grandes maestros de la pintura europea de The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York: De El Greco a Cézanne," December 1, 2006–March 4, 2007, no. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne," June 23–November 12, 2006, no. "The Essential Stubbs," May 3–June 2, 1985, no. Paul Moore, Hollow Hill Farm, Convent, New Jersey). "Sport and the Horse," April 1–May 15, 1960, no. The handling of the sky and the dappled light in the foreground and middle distance contribute to the quality of the picture, the state of which is good for a work by Stubbs. The thick tree trunk arching over the composition at left and the outsize burdock leaves in the right foreground are typical for this date, while the horse is unusually small in relation to the setting, considering that the picture is in essence an animal portrait. Stubbs’s landscape backgrounds vary from the specific to the Romantic in the present case, Judy Egerton (2007) presumed that the setting is Knole. 1702–1752), the leading horse painter of the previous generation. While the canvas dates to the artist’s mature and most inventive period, Stubbs employed a standard format, somewhat in the manner of James Seymour (ca. In a 1778 inventory of his belongings at Knole, the picture is listed as “A Horse and Groom-Stubbs 1768 / a present / ” (Egerton 2007). The third Duke was a courtier, diplomat, and philanderer whose sporting passion was cricket. This painting of a bay hunting horse was given to John Frederick Sackville (1745–1799), who in 1769 became the third Duke of Dorset, heir to the family fortune and the family seat, Knole, at Sevenoaks, Kent.
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