[Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75]

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Hand-coloured mezzotint on paper, 225 x 348mm, within cream mount. An attractive portrait of a notable Suffolk trainer of pointer dogs : Cotton Decks, at the age of 75 with gun in hand rides his horse through a clearing, two pointers running alongside. The original inscription below has been removed, either before the 1780s in keeping with the fashion for trimming to keep in a print portfolio, or c1880s when there was a vogue for painterly colouring of engravings. According to the copy in the British Museum, the inscription reads Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75 . a Noted Breaker of Pointers, has attended New Market meetings these 30 Years past is Qualified to Hawk, Hunt &c by the Honble Chas Bertley and: F. Sartorious pinxit/Robt Lowrie fecit/ London. Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2 March 1772 . Refs: Chaloner Smiot 16; Russell 16.l; Siltzer p242. See also John William Carleton, The Sporting Review ed by Craven , 2012, p398. Francis Sartius, is best known for exhibiting paintings of racehorses, hunters and hacks in London between 1773 and 1791, including twelve pictures in the Royal Academy. His work bridges the gap between the 'primitive' work of James Seymour and the realism of George Stubbs.' (Lane, p.157). N° de ref. del artículo 8000

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