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Four men sitting on three horses (formerly 'Four Polish riders')

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1633

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 11.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.116.1

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Benjamin West, London (1738-1820), L.419 (lower right); possibly his estate sale, Christie’s (London), 9 - 13 June 1820, lot 105 on the fourth day (listed as three studies in pen and ink by Della Bella); Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823), L.2426 (removed from a former mount); Samuel Woodburn (London); Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 224 (16 drawings of 'Military and other subjects, by Della Bella' including D.1978.PG.116.2, D.1978.PG.117.1-.3, D.1978.PG.119.1-.3 and D.1978.PG.121-122, 126); purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 116a
pl. LXXVI
dated 1633

Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, p. 226, no. 6

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
p. 123, no. 2c

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: lower half of a coat of arms containing a shield that looks to be either halved or quartered (not found in Heawood).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, blindstamped: Benjamin West (L.419). Removed from a former mount or support and now mounted with the drawing: stamped in black: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426).

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