John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk

James Dunthorne, 1730–1815, British, John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1765

Creator:: James Dunthorne, 1730–1815
Title:: John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 54 inches (90.2 x 137.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Signed and dated in green paint, lower right: "J. Dunthorne | 1765"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B2001.2.1
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B2001.2.1FR
Subject Terms:: dogs (animals) | farmhouse | fox (animal) | fox hunting | horses (animals) | house | hunting guns | men | sporting art
Associated Places:: England | Europe | Hadleigh | Suffolk | United Kingdom
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41337
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According to a label on the back of the frame, this painting records an actual incident from a day's foxhunting, when hounds pursued a fox onto the roof of a farmhouse. The work was commissioned by John Sidey of Pudneys Farm, Bures Hamlet, Essex, who appears on the right, riding a grey horse; the hounds were probably his private pack. The artist, James Dunthorne, was a provincial portraitist based in nearby Colchester. Malcolm Warner Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 51, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)

Sojourn at Home: Sporting Paintings from the Paul Mellon Bequest at the Yale Center for British Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2002-10-04 - 2003-03-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 43, no. 31, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS) [ORBIS]

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 51, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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