A Roan Hack c.1794
Oil on canvas | 88.1 x 101.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405033
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Marshall began his training in London in 1791 with the portrait painter Lemuel Francis Abbott (c.1760-1802); he rapidly became a sporting specialist and moved near Newmarket in 1812. This is one of six horse paintings (RCIN 400998, 401255, 401459, 401256, 400999, 405033) executed (judging from the horses) around 1794, within a few years of Stubbs’s similar set of royal horse pictures (executed 1791-2). All six paintings are signed and include the inscription ‘for G.P.W.’(George, Prince of Wales), though they are first recorded at ‘Stud Lodge’ in 1868. This unidentified chestnut horse is standing, saddled and bridled, under the colonnade of Carlton House, with the houses in Pall Mall beyond. An adequate mews formed a vital part of every grand London town house; the quality of a fashionable gentleman's horse was an important part of the effect they wished to create in the capital.
Provenance
Painted for George IV; first recorded as an addition to the Hampton Court inventory of 1861 (no 1146)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
88.1 x 101.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
125.6 x 110.2 x 8.4 cm (frame, external)
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The Prince of Wales's Roan Hack at Carlton House, Pall Mall