Adam's Country House Collections 18th & 19th October 2021

173 Country House Collections|18 th & 19 th October 2021 532 JOHN FERNELEY SNR (1782-1860) Mr Hugh Dick’s Favourite Mare and Pointer outside Humewood House, County Wicklow Oil on canvas, 100 x 125cm Signed ‘J. Ferneley Pinx.’ and dated 1809 (lower right) Literature: Major Guy Paget DL, The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley (Leicester, 1931) under the artist’s account book no. 17 (unpaginated); Robert Fountain, John Ferneley (1782-1860): Catalogue of Paintings Chronologically by Subject (British Sport- ing Art Trust, online, updated December 2015) reference number A.09.017.001; James Horan, Humewood (Kinsale, Gandon Editions, 2018) illustrated page 27. Provenance: Commissioned by Hugh Dick Esq. MP, in July 1809 at a cost of 15 guineas; by bequest to his sister Charlotte Anna, who had married Captain William Hoare Hume of Humewood; with Leggat Brothers, London, from whom acquired by Mrs. Edward Shearson, (née Flora Josephine Shea) New York (her posthumous sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 6, 1955, lot 48); Jane Engelhard (1917-2004), New York philanthropist and owner of the great racehorse Nijinsky which was trained at Ballydoyle by Vincent O’Brien; by gift of Mrs Engelhard to a US private collector. € 40,000 - 60,000