Ben Marshall

Mr Wedge's black Newfoundland dog, Satan, and a piebald pony, outside a barn

Lot Closed

April 6, 03:28 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Hampshire Private Collection

Ben Marshall

Seagrave 1768 - 1835 London

Mr Wedge's black Newfoundland dog, Satan, and a piebald pony, outside a barn

oil on canvas

unframed: 63.8 x 76.2 cm.; 25⅛ x 30 in.

framed: 79.8 x 92.4 cm.; 31⅜ x 36⅜ in.

R. Rogers, Newmarket;
Mr and Mrs Jack R. Dick (1927-74), Greenwich, Connecticut;
Their sale (Part 3), London, Sotheby's, 23 April 1975, lot 119, to Ackermann for £9,000;
With Arthur Ackermann & Sons, London;
From whom acquired.

The Sporting Magazine, May 1814, vol. XLIV, pp. 49-50, reproduced pl. 1;

Sir W. Gilbey, Animal Painters of England from the year 1650, London 1900, vol. 11, p. 95;

W. Shaw Sparrow, George Stubbs and Ben Marshall, London and New York 1929, p. 55;

A. Noakes, Ben Marshall 1768-1835, Leigh-on-Sea 1978, pp. 43 and 77, no. 123.

ENGRAVED

John Scott, 1814.

This painting commemorates and celebrates the intelligence of Satan, the Newfoundland dog, of whom all the Newmarket stable boys were fond, following an incident involving Merry Andrew, a racehorse, who threw his boy-rider on Newmarket Heath and then began to worry him. Ben Marshall and Mr Kellerman were exercising Satan at the time, but when the horse turned on them, Satan protected his escorts by seizing the horse's muzzle long enough for the men to rescue the injured boy and take him back to the stables.