This painting shows a man holding a pheasant by its legs in his raised left hand, his right arm supporting a long rifle. The man is turned to the right, and he is wearing a tall grey top hat, a long, gray-brown coat, dark pants, and boots. He has fair skin, pink cheeks, and a slight smile on his pink lips. Gray hair is partially visible beneath his hat. A red horse is to his left with its head lowered, and two brown-and-white dogs are at his feet. The background is a sky with swirling clouds in shades of brown and gray, with distant blue hills visible beyond the brown landscape.
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J.G. Shaddick, the Celebrated Sportsman

painter Benjamin Marshall (British, 1768 - 1835)

1806

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 240 x 148 cm (94 1/2 x 58 1/4 in.) ; framed: 263.2 x 171.5 cm (103 5/8 x 67 1/2 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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