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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.