John Wootton

The National Horseracing Museum (NHRM) in Newmarket has accepted three large historic equine portraits by the renowned British artist John Wootton (1682-1764), which will be on public display from Thursday, April 23. The paintings were acquired through the Arts Council's Acceptance in Lieu Scheme and were commissioned by Sir John Dutton in the 1720s, part of a series of seven equine portraits for his home at Sherborne Park in Gloucestershire. The horses depicted - Lord Bridgewater's Ashridge Ball, Lord Harley's Bloody Shouldered Arabian and the Duke of Devonshire's Flying Childers...