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392 OLD WORLD MASTERS
On giving The Harvest Waggon to Wiltshire, Gainsborough said it
■pleased him more than any picture he had ever painted.
From the Collections of Thomas Gibbons, Esq., Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park, of the Rev. Benjamin Gibbons, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park, and of Sir Lionel Phillips, London, The Harvest Waggon
passed into the Collection of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary. It at-
tracted great attention at the Gary Sale in New York, April, 1928,
when it was sold at the Plaza Hotel for $875,000, the highest figure that
any picture has ever reached at auction.
JOHN WALTER TEMPEST.
George Romney Collection of
(1734-1802). Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field.
It would be hard to find in all the range of portraiture, at any time
and in any place, a work more charming, true, sincere, natural, and
ingratiating than this adorable boy with his beloved horse. You can
see at a glance that they love each other.
Everything about the picture is delightful: the coloring, the hand-
some, sweet, and dreamy boy with his unspeakable grace and gentle-
ness, the fine horse, so contented, and the suave landscape—all make .
both a portrait and a picture that will live for all time. No changes
in fashion can ever destroy its beauty and its appeal. Moreover,
Romney has succeeded in suggesting here a young boy’s dreams and
the friendship between a boy and a horse. The relation between the
two, as they enjoy a pause in their jaunt through the woodland, is
marvellously expressed. The relation of these figures to the landscape
is such that we feel as if we, too, were in this lovely, English, sylvan
spot. We seem to hear the plash of the tiny waterfall and the sound
of the horse’s lips as he quenches his thirst. In just one moment more
and the sweet, gentle, dreamy boy will pat his friend’s warm, brown
neck, leap lightly on his back and off they will go merrily
“ to seek fresh woods and pastures new.”
On giving The Harvest Waggon to Wiltshire, Gainsborough said it
■pleased him more than any picture he had ever painted.
From the Collections of Thomas Gibbons, Esq., Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park, of the Rev. Benjamin Gibbons, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park, and of Sir Lionel Phillips, London, The Harvest Waggon
passed into the Collection of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary. It at-
tracted great attention at the Gary Sale in New York, April, 1928,
when it was sold at the Plaza Hotel for $875,000, the highest figure that
any picture has ever reached at auction.
JOHN WALTER TEMPEST.
George Romney Collection of
(1734-1802). Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field.
It would be hard to find in all the range of portraiture, at any time
and in any place, a work more charming, true, sincere, natural, and
ingratiating than this adorable boy with his beloved horse. You can
see at a glance that they love each other.
Everything about the picture is delightful: the coloring, the hand-
some, sweet, and dreamy boy with his unspeakable grace and gentle-
ness, the fine horse, so contented, and the suave landscape—all make .
both a portrait and a picture that will live for all time. No changes
in fashion can ever destroy its beauty and its appeal. Moreover,
Romney has succeeded in suggesting here a young boy’s dreams and
the friendship between a boy and a horse. The relation between the
two, as they enjoy a pause in their jaunt through the woodland, is
marvellously expressed. The relation of these figures to the landscape
is such that we feel as if we, too, were in this lovely, English, sylvan
spot. We seem to hear the plash of the tiny waterfall and the sound
of the horse’s lips as he quenches his thirst. In just one moment more
and the sweet, gentle, dreamy boy will pat his friend’s warm, brown
neck, leap lightly on his back and off they will go merrily
“ to seek fresh woods and pastures new.”