Breaking Cover

John Wootton (c.1682-1764)

oil on canvas, signed, lower right, 'J. Wooton fecit'

This picture of the mid-1730s hangs in its original carved andgilded frame. Tradition identifies the figure conspicuous at theleft, a groom helping him to divest himself of his coat, as John, 2ndDuke of Montagu. One of Wootton's liveliest hunts.

In the 1832 Inventory of paintings at Boughton (BH10): 'no.1 Ahunting piece by Wootton'.

PROVENANCE commissioned by John, 2nd Duke of Montagu; thence bydescent.

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