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The York and Edinburgh Royal Mail Coach trapped in a snow drift by James Pollard (English, 1792–1867) An oil on canvas of The York and Edinburgh Royal Mail Coach trapped in a snow drift on a country lane by James Pollard (English, 1792–1867). Two coachmen encourage the horses while another man tries to unblock the wheel, and another on one of the horses rides off in the field behind; trees behind for help. The coach fully laden, wears the correct Royal Mail livery, black with red door and lower panels, Post Office red wheels, and The Royal Coat of Arms on the door with the name of the town at the end of the coach’s route.Signed and dated 1827. English 1827.
Provenance:
• Sotheby’s 15th July 1964, lot 152
• N C Selway Collection
• The “Mr and Mrs Jack R Dick Collection of English Sporting and Conversation Paintings Part Twoâ€, Sotheby & Co, New York, 26th June 1974, lot 80.
• C. Thomas and Alexandra Fuller Estate Collection of Willow Brook Farms, Catasauqua, PA.
Literature:
- N.C. Selway, The Regents Road, 1957, p. 75, no. 26, reproduced-
- N.C. Selway, James Pollard, 1792-1867, 1965, p. 28, no. 35;
- N.C. Selway, The Golden Age of Coaching and Sport, 1972, p. 25, no. 34
Engraved:
• A hand-coloured etching and aquatint by Richard Gilson Reeve, (London 1803 – 1889), was published 21st September 1825 by Jonathan Watson. (See British Museum Collection and Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1996.16.16)).
James Pollard was an English painter best known coaching, fox hunting, equestrian and sporting scenes. Born in 1792 in Islington, London to the painter and publisher Robert Pollard the Elder, he went on to work for his father’s firm as a draftsman and engraver. While working for his father, he was commissioned by a print seller named Edward Orme to paint an public house signboards, often with coaching scenes. Such commission launched the artist’s career. Pollard went on to exhibit his work at the Royal Academy and the British Institution in London.
Today, his works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, the Denver Art Museum, and the Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine SArts
This item is now SOLD and has been left in the Public Domain for research purposes.
Images are available for research and public use with an acknowledgement to www.hamsheregallery.com
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