Gimcrack, with John Pratt up
George Stubbs
- Art Funded
- 1983
- Dimensions
- 100 x 127 cm
- Vendor
- Michael Tollemache
Portrait of one of the most famous racehorses of 18th-century England.
Gimcrack was a grey horse foaled in 1760 by Cripple, the Godolphin Arabian's son, out of a Partner mare.
Provenance
Commissioned by William Wildman; Christie's 1787; Woodburn; Sir Walter Gilbey by 1898, Christie's 1915; Dean; Sir William Pierrepont Wilson-Todd; presented by his widow to the Yorkshire Club 1925; Agnew's 1958; Lady Robert Adeane; by descen