CHAMPION RACEHORSE LE VAR, WITH OWNER ALFRED ECCLES, 1897
FREDERICK WOODHOUSE SNR
oil on canvas
56.0 x 76.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: Fred Woodhouse Senr / 1897
bears inscription on frame verso: By F Woodhouse 1897 MB. A. Eccles (OWNER) / "LE VAR"
Laverty collection, Sydney
Pastures & Pastimes: An Exhibition Of Australian Racing, Sporting & Animal Pictures Of The 19th century, Victorian Artists Society Gallery, Melbourne, 14 October – 5 November 1983; Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, 19 November – 20 December 1983; S.H. Ervin National Trust Gallery, Sydney, 6 January – 19 February 1984, cat. 71
Laverty 2, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, 14 May – 14 August 2011
Laverty, C., Australian Colonial Sporting Painters, Frederick Woodhouse and Sons, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, pp. 58 – 59 (illus., as ‘Le Var in a Stable, with Owner Alfred Eccles’)
Laverty, C., Pastures & Pastimes: An Exhibition Of Australian Racing, Sporting & Animal Pictures Of The 19th century, Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Melbourne, 1983, cat. 71, p. 62 (as ‘Le Var, Winner of Major West Australian Races’)