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Collector's Journal — British Animal Painting

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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The Victorian Shorthorn Bull: A British Livestock Portrait with a Bourgeois Aîné Paris Connection

• Agricultural Art • Art Research and Provenance • Bourgeois Aine • British Animal Painting • British Naive Art • Fine Art Conservation • Golding Young and Mawer • Livestock Painting • Rural Art • Shorthorn Bull • The Collectors Journal • Victorian Art • William Ward

The Victorian Shorthorn Bull: A British Livestock Portrait with a Bourgeois Aîné Paris Connection

Discover the remarkable story behind a late-Victorian British Shorthorn bull painting, circa 1890. From its Bourgeois Aîné, Paris F8 artist’s support and Golding Young & Mawer provenance to professional conservation and its private loan and exhibition with the Famous Lord Hill Museum, the reverse reveals almost as much history as the painting itself.

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J. Warnes: The Lurcher and the English Countryside

• Art Research • British Animal Painting • British Dog Art • Collectors Journal • Colonel Peter Fishbourne • Dog Portrait • Earls Colne • Edwardian Art • Edwardian Britain • English Countryside • Essex • Greyhound • J. Warnes • Lime House • Lurcher • Lurcher Painting • Lurcher Portrait • Provenance Research • Rowney & Co • Samuel John Carter • Sporting Art • Sporting Painting • Victorian Sporting Art • Working Dogs

J. Warnes: The Lurcher and the English Countryside

A sensitive circa 1910 portrait of a lurcher by British artist J. Warnes places a working dog within the English countryside, offering an evocative glimpse into Edwardian rural life and the tradition of British sporting and animal painting.

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