The Knox Sporting Screen A six panel folding screen comprising on the front twelve paintings of hunting subjects, and on the reverse eighteen portraits of celebrated racehorses with riders and grooms, all thirty paintings in trompe l'oeil frames arranged in an architectural format of olive-green and old gold on the front and Chinese red and gold on the reverse
$500
Richard Roper (active 1749-1765)
The Knox Sporting Screen
A six panel folding screen comprising on the front twelve paintings of hunting subjects, and on the reverse eighteen portraits of celebrated racehorses with riders and grooms, all thirty paintings in trompe l'oeil frames arranged in an architectural format of olive-green and old gold on the front and Chinese red and gold on the reverse
signed and dated 'R. Roper Pinxt. A.D. 1759' (on the lower part of the left reverse panel)
oil on canvas, a six fold screen
106.1 x 144 in. (269.4 x 365.8 cm.) overall