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Auction archive: Lot number 281

THOMAS WALKER BRETLAND (BRITISH

COUNTRY HOUSE SALE
11 Oct 2016
Opening
€30,000 - €50,000
ca. US$33,078 - US$55,130
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 281

THOMAS WALKER BRETLAND (BRITISH

COUNTRY HOUSE SALE
11 Oct 2016
Opening
€30,000 - €50,000
ca. US$33,078 - US$55,130
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

THOMAS WALKER BRETLAND (BRITISH, 1802-1874) John Osborne Pollock (1812-1886), Master of the Meath Hounds with Hounds and the Field in a North Meath Landscape with the Cavan Hills in the Distance Oil on canvas, 69 x 90cm Signed John Osbourne Pollock married Maria Louisa Darley of Wingfield, Co. Wicklow, who was also a renowned breeder of prize cattle and commissioned many itinerant artists to record the stock and horses at Mountainstown. Foxhunting in County Meath is a well rooted sport. Christopher Nicholson of Balrath is recorded as keeping a pack of hounds in 1723. The Meath hunt came together in the Regency period by the amalgamation of individually owned packs. In 1813 the Gerrard and Pollock packs combined and, being kept in kennels by the old castle, were known as the Clongill Hunt, with Pollock as master. With the combination of other packs, the hunt formally changed its title to The Meath and in 1841 a committee comprising John Pollock, John Tisdall and Thomas Rothwell put the hunt into good shape and it continues merrily to this day, having become one of the most renowned hunts under the stewardship of the famous Sam Reynell who laid out coverts and brought in the best strains of hounds. John Pollock resigned after the first class season of 1845 and it seems that this picture commemorates this, being completed in his studio by Bretland the following year. Bretland was part of the tradition of English artists, starting with Fearneley and going on to Baldock, Lynwood Palmer, Munnings, Lionel Edwards and Snaffles, painting Irish hunts. It is strange that in Ireland, with its great equestrian tradition, with the exception of individuals, no native Irish school of sporting artists emerged.

Auction archive: Lot number 281
Auction:
Datum:
11 Oct 2016
Auction house:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Ireland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
Beschreibung:

THOMAS WALKER BRETLAND (BRITISH, 1802-1874) John Osborne Pollock (1812-1886), Master of the Meath Hounds with Hounds and the Field in a North Meath Landscape with the Cavan Hills in the Distance Oil on canvas, 69 x 90cm Signed John Osbourne Pollock married Maria Louisa Darley of Wingfield, Co. Wicklow, who was also a renowned breeder of prize cattle and commissioned many itinerant artists to record the stock and horses at Mountainstown. Foxhunting in County Meath is a well rooted sport. Christopher Nicholson of Balrath is recorded as keeping a pack of hounds in 1723. The Meath hunt came together in the Regency period by the amalgamation of individually owned packs. In 1813 the Gerrard and Pollock packs combined and, being kept in kennels by the old castle, were known as the Clongill Hunt, with Pollock as master. With the combination of other packs, the hunt formally changed its title to The Meath and in 1841 a committee comprising John Pollock, John Tisdall and Thomas Rothwell put the hunt into good shape and it continues merrily to this day, having become one of the most renowned hunts under the stewardship of the famous Sam Reynell who laid out coverts and brought in the best strains of hounds. John Pollock resigned after the first class season of 1845 and it seems that this picture commemorates this, being completed in his studio by Bretland the following year. Bretland was part of the tradition of English artists, starting with Fearneley and going on to Baldock, Lynwood Palmer, Munnings, Lionel Edwards and Snaffles, painting Irish hunts. It is strange that in Ireland, with its great equestrian tradition, with the exception of individuals, no native Irish school of sporting artists emerged.

Auction archive: Lot number 281
Auction:
Datum:
11 Oct 2016
Auction house:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Ireland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
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