MENTOR, WINNER OF 1888 MELBOURNE CUP, WITH TRAINER WALTER S. HICKENBOTHAM AND JOCKEY MICK O’BRIEN, AT FLEMINGTON, 1889
FREDERICK WOODHOUSE JNR
oil on canvas
71.0 x 94.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: Fred Woodhouse Junr’ / 1889
Brian Maguire, Melbourne, by 1969
Larry Foley, Fremantle
Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
The Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in October 1998
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. 78
Mentor and the 1888 Melbourne Cup, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 28 October – 20 November 2002
Gambling in Australia: thrills, spills and social ills, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 6 April – 10 October 2004 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Bernstein, D. L., First Tuesday in November: The Story of the Melbourne Cup, William Heinemann Ltd., Melbourne, 1969, p. 225 (illus., as ‘Mr D. S. Wallace’s MENTOR, winner of the Melbourne Cup in 1888,with trainer Walter Hickenbotham and jockey Mick O’Brien’)
Laverty, C., Australian Colonial Sporting Painters, Frederick Woodhouse and Sons, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, pp. 82 – 83 (illus.)
Laverty, C., Pastures & Pastimes: An Exhibition Of Australian Racing, Sporting & Animal Pictures Of The 19th century, Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Melbourne, 1983, cat. 78, p. 65
Makin, J., ‘Art has its day at the races – in the frame’, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 3 November 1998