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Oil on canvas 70.5 x 126 cm. (27 3/4 x 49 1/2 in) Provenance: Ex-collection of Carleton-Cowper, Carleton Hall, Penrith, Cumbria. Son of the painter Thomas Wyck (1616-1977), Jan Wyck was born in Haarlem in 1652, and was know to have been in London by 1674; the artist was most likely there much earlier.[1] Wyck travelled extensively throughout England and Scotland, and made detailed sketches of his travels. In 1690 Wyck accompanied the Dutch painter Dirk Maas (1659-1717) to Ireland to paint the campaigns of William III, and it was here that Wyck came into close contact with William III where their working relationship began; several equestrian portraits are known, alongside depictions of the Battle of Boyne, 1693 (see: National Gallery of Ireland, acc. no.: NGI.988), and the Siege of Namur, 1695 (see: National Army Musuem, acc. no.: 1996-04-110-1). The present painting has traditionally been understood to show William III on a hunt in New Forest, and the work is comparable to a number of other hunting scenes by Wyck that depict the sovereign Prince of Orange; most notably the William III and his staff, with Dutch and British troops on the march (see: Sotheby's London, The British Sale: Early Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours , 30th November, lot 169) , the signed work An Extensive Landscape with a Stag Hunt (see: Sotheby's New York, 24th January 2002, lot 225), and The Stag Hunt in Full Cry (see: Sotheby's London, 9th July 1997, lot 109). [1] Katharine Gibson, Wyck , Jan (c.1645-1700) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30121, accessed 19 Oct 2015]