The Earl of Coventry's Horse

by Benjamin Marshall

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower left: B. Marshall p.1805

Publications

The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1970-71 (Chicago, 1971), p. 26.

Quick Overview

Artist: Benjamin Marshall (English, 1767–1835)
Date: 1805
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 86.5 × 101.5 cm (34 × 39 15/16 in.); Framed: 101.6 × 116.9 × 5.8 cm (40 × 46 × 2 1/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: nineteenth century
Place: England
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of Alice A. Arlen in memory of her mother Josephine Patterson Albright
Accession no.: 1970.1034

Provenance

Knoedler & Co., New York [based on type of label and numbering found on label on reverse of stretcher]. Possibly Elinor Patterson, née Medill (died 1933), Chicago; possibly by descent to her daughter, Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson (died 1948), Chicago and Washington, D. C. [according to Alice Arlen who attested to Cissy Patterson’s ownership of the picture and suggested that she may have inherited it from her mother; electronic correspondence, February 3, 2004, in curatorial file]; by descent to her niece, Alicia Patterson (died 1963); by descent to her husband, Harry Guggenheim [according to Alice Arlen, see above]; given by him to his niece, Alice Albright Hoge (later Alice Arlen), 1963 [see above]; given to the Art Institute, 1970.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.