Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Euxton, with John White Up, at Heaton Park
John Ferneley, 1829 · oil on canvas
What it is
Euxton, a black horse, stands with John White up while two gentlemen talk and a groom kneels with a cloth, signed and dated by John Ferneley, 1829.
Why it matters
Heaton Park, north of Manchester, is the grounds of Heaton Hall; Ferneley painted the horse on its course.
What to notice
Two more horses race in the distance at the left, as if the next heat has already started.
Between heats.
Provenance
- Maker
- John Ferneley, 1829
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1829
- Horse
- Euxton
- Figure
- John White
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Publicity
Clear — the historic British turf (the Victorian jockeys, the Vanity Fair subjects): a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: PD-Art|PD-old-100-1923|deathyear=1860. The maker died in 1860.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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