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Benedict Angell Hyland (British, 1859-1933) The Duke of Portland's Clumber Spaniels at Welbeck Abbey image 1
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Lot 78

Benedict Angell Hyland
(British, 1859-1933)
The Duke of Portland's Clumber Spaniels at Welbeck Abbey

8 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
Edinburgh

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Benedict Angell Hyland (British, 1859-1933)

The Duke of Portland's Clumber Spaniels at Welbeck Abbey
signed and dated 'B.A.Hyland 1884' (lower left)
oil on canvas
61 x 78cm (24 x 30 11/16in).

Footnotes

Literature
W. Secord, Dog Painting: A History of the Dog in Art, New York, 2013, p. 363.

In the 1880s, Hyland was restoring the pictures of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey. It is here that he would have met and painted the Duke's Clumber Spaniels. The duke is known to have possessed most of the best bitches of the day.

Clumbers were famously bred and trained for the 2nd Duke of Newcastle by gamekeeper William Mansell, at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, an adjacent estate. Dogs from Clumber Park made their way into the Duke of Portland's kennels at nearby Welbeck Abbey, along with the kennels of the Foljambe family at Osberton Hall near Worksop; the Duke of Kingston's kennels at Thoresby Hall; and the Duke Norfolk's at Worksop Manor.

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