Study from a Celebrated Arab Mare

Stock No: 250082 WILLIAM THOMAS STRUTT 1825 - 1915 Study from a Celebrated Arab Mare pencil and watercolour on paper 30.5 x 60.5 cm signed lower left: William Strutt FSZ dated lower right: Feb 5th / 84 inscribed lower centre: Study from a celebrated Arab mare label verso: (part missing) "Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition: William Strutt Date: Feb - 12 July 1981 cat 54 Artist: William Strutt Title: Study from a Celebrated Arab Mare (priv)ate collection" label verso: 28. William Strutt Lady Blunt's Arab Mare Sherifa 1884 pencil & crayon 38 x 55.5 cm signed Wm Strutt lower left inscribed Lady Blunt's Celebrated Arab Mare Sherifa in action / Sept 27th 1884 label verso: "24. A Terrible Scare oil on canvas 231 x 171.4 cm signed lower right William Strutt Provenance: Christies' auction, London, 3 April 1970 (passed in); Christies' auction, London, 14 May 1976. Exhibited: Royal Society of British Artists, 1891; Eastern Encounters, Fine Arts Society, London, 1978; illustrated in colour in catalogue. Reference: JCWood A Dictionary of British Animal Painters, Leigh-on-Sea (UK) 1973, page 63 private collection"