Signed with initials lower right: GH/1830 and later inscribed: G. Hayter
Pen and brown ink
235 x 177 mm., 9 ¼ x 7 in.
Provenance:
Sir John Clermont Witt (1907-1982);
By descent until 2017
This drawing is based on the horse in Van Dyck's
`Charles I with M. de St. Antoine' in the Royal Collection. Hayter was a
portrait and history painter who was appointed official painter to Queen
Victoria on her accession in 1837.