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Collector's Journal — British Sporting Art

Stable Genius: Charles Bilger Spalding’s Chestnut Hunter of 1843

• 19th Century Art • British Equestrian Art • British Oil Painting • British Sporting Art • Charles Bilger Spalding • Chestnut Hunter • Early Victorian Art • Equestrian Art • Horse Painting • Mallams Oxford • Royal Academy • Sporting Paintings • Victorian Art

Stable Genius: Charles Bilger Spalding’s Chestnut Hunter of 1843

Explore Charles Bilger Spalding’s A Chestnut Hunter in a Stable, a signed and dated 1843 British sporting oil painting from the early years of his documented career. Discover its Royal Academy context, equestrian subject, Mallams provenance and place within Victorian sporting art.

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Victorian King Charles Spaniels: Blenheim, Prince Charles & the Art of the Canine Portrait

• 19th Century Art • Antique Dog Portrait • Blenheim Spaniel • British Animal Painting • British Sporting Art • Canine Portraiture • Collector's Journal • Country House Art • John Dalby • King Charles Spaniel • Prince Charles Spaniel • Victorian Art • Victorian Dog Painting

Victorian King Charles Spaniels: Blenheim, Prince Charles & the Art of the Canine Portrait

Discover the history behind a circa 1880 British oil painting of two King Charles Spaniels—a Blenheim and Prince Charles tricolour—set within an atmospheric wooded landscape and catalogued in the manner of John Dalby of York.

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Arthur Roland Knight: Pike Fishing and the Art of Victorian Angling

• Angling Art • Art Research • Arthur Roland Knight • British Art • British Sporting Art • Collectors Journal • Duke's Auctioneers • Fishing Art • Fishing History • Natural History Art • Northern Pike • Pike Fishing • Provenance Research • Sporting Paintings • Victorian Angling • Victorian Paintings

Arthur Roland Knight: Pike Fishing and the Art of Victorian Angling

A signed Victorian oil by specialist sporting artist Arthur Roland Knight captures the dramatic moment a northern pike is landed with a gaff, combining the excitement of nineteenth-century angling with natural-history observation and the atmosphere of the British river.

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