James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil (1730-1798), with his bay hunter Mowbray, resting on a wooded path by a lake

George Stubbs, A.R.A. (Liverpool 1724-1806 London) James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil (1730-1798), with his bay hunter Mowbray, resting on a wooded path by a lake signed and dated 'Geo Stubbs / pinxit / 1765' (lower right); further signed and dated 'Geo Stubbs / 1769' (over the former signature and date, lower right); and with later inscriptions 'Mowbray a Hunter belonging / to James Earl of Clanbrassil (lower left) and 'JAMES 2ND EARL of CLANBRASSILL, OBT1798.' (lower centre) oil on canvas 40 x 50½ in. (101.6 x 128.3 cm.) in a gilded hollow section frame of circa 1800, with composition lamb's tongue sight edge