Early 19th-Century English School, Bay Horse In A Landscape

Early 19th-Century English School, Bay Horse In A LandscapeThis charming early 19th century English school oil painting depicts a bay horse before a picturesque landscape. The British aristocracy has always had a passion for equestrian activities and during the 1820s, when this piece was produced, country homes were filled with images of beloved equines. Horses were significant members of the family, trusted, loyal, and characterful. As such, numerous artists, both established and provincial, were

hunched into a battered overcoat

in his ‘spare time’

William Drummond was an accomplished portraitist who fulfilled a burgeoning need amongst the middle and upper classes to have one’s likeness depicted as a symbol of power and prestige

a critic described him as “a personality who has something of his own to say

a coachbuilder

fluid and evocative

000 for ‘A Young Fishergirl (1919)’

he’s paying tribute to an architectural gem of a pre-railway generation

scuffs and abrasions

This early 20th-century portrait by French artist Alexandre Denonne (1879-1959) depicts a gentleman with a pipe

Size including frame 15⅓” x 13” / 39cm x 33cm

During her interview with Picasso