Hotel owner brings St Leger prints home
A HOTEL proprietor has bought two prints of the famous St Leger races in Doncaster to add to his collection of racing memorabilia.
Paul Levack, owner of Ye Olde Bell Hotel and Restaurant in Retford, bought the aquatints at an auction in Berkshire as he felt the pictures should be “brought back to their origins”.
The aquatints, which are not paintings but are instead etched onto copper with nitric acid and resin, are entitled Doncaster Races – The Horses starting for the Great St Leger Stakes and The Horses passing the Judges’ Stand.
They were part of a collection of 200 prints being sold for a wealthy Chicago banker, Norman Robins, and are copies of pictures by James Pollard, a London coaching and sporting artist.