found: Work cat.: Country pursuits : British, American, and French sporting art ... c2007:p. 3, etc. (sporting painter; sporting painting; historical usage: "sporting pictures" (1806), "painting of Fowle, Hares &c" (1693); reached its high point in England and France ca. 1700-ca. 1860, began in U.S. in 1820s)
found: Oxford companion to Western art, viewed online Oct. 19, 2007(Sporting painting; term applied to paintings of blood sports, horse and dog racing, pugilism, portraits of the animals and individuals involved; essentially documentary with no allegorical or secondary purpose)
found: Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, 1953:index (Sporting painting)
found: British sporting paintings, c1985.
found: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts website, Oct. 23, 2007(British Sporting Art Collection Fact Sheet: The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection of British sporting art is one of the largest and most important in the United States. The sporting paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints in the collection reflect both the variety and the general quality of a uniquely British school of art during its heyday, from 1700 to 1850)
