Collector's Journal — Sporting Paintings
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
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.
The Horse: British Equestrian Tradition Through a Modernist Eye
20th Century British Art Animal Art Animal Painting Art Provenance Art Research British Art British Artists British Equestrian Art British Oil Painting Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD Collectors Journal Equestrian Art Equestrian Painting Fine Art Horse Art Horse Painting Lionel Ellis Mid Century Art Mid Century Painting Modern British Art Provenance Sporting Art Sporting Paintings Vintage Art
Discover the remarkable story of The Horse, a circa 1950–1960 Modern British equestrian oil painting attributed to Lionel Ellis (1903–1988), with historic inscriptions recording its reported direct acquisition from the artist in 1974 and an unusually detailed chain of ownership.
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
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.
