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Raymond Agler Fine Arts

Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British (5)

Henry Major (1829-1902). Pre-Raphaelite Still Life. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 870663 (stock# 2483B)
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Oil on canvas, 12 x 14 inches, 17.75 x 19.5 framed, signed and dated "H.A. Major 1888" lower right. Known as the "Postman Artist", the talented Mr. Major was a letter-carrier in London for some 27 years. He was also an accomplished violinist, an actor and a playwright, with over 20 plays to his credit. As this and related works attest, he was a master of the intimate, meticulously-rendered still life in the true-to-nature mode beloved by the Pre-Raphaelites. Here is a rustic ...click for details

Malbon, William (1805-1877). Watchdog, A Bull Terrier. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 990807 (stock# 2484D)
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Oil on wood panel, 12 x 17.25 inches (18 x 23 inches with frame), signed "Will Malbon" lower right, painted c. 1840. The noble race of the white English Bull Terrier came into its own in the early 19th century under the selective breeding of James Hinks of Birmingham. Its most distinctive ancestor was the white English Terrier. "Hinks Breed" became extremely popular, a powerfully-built, mostly white dog of refined physique, usually cropped ears, and an appealing personalit ...click for details

English School, 19thC., King Charles Spaniel Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 965413 (stock# 2484E)
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Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 17 x 23 inches plus frame, unsigned. Like the servant who married the master, the King Charles Spaniel, in the period from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, "went from the scullery to the parlor in one jump." In Hogarth's famous 1742 portrait of Miss Mary Edwards (one of the richest women in England at the time), Miss Edwards is portrayed with one hand on the head of her favorite spaniel, who gazes adoringly at his mistress. By the 1820's Hen ...click for details

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902).Landscape w/Cows,Sheep Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 769051 (stock# 2485A)
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Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches plus frame, signed and dated "T.S.Cooper 1842" lower left. "Cow Cooper" was born in impoverished circumstances but managed to gain a coveted position at the Royal Academy school where he earned the encouragement of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Persistent money problems, however, forced him to seek a livelihood on the Continent. In a fortunate turn, he was befriended by the famous animal painter Eugene Verboeckhoven (1707-1881). Returned to England by 183 ...click for details

James Francis Williams (1785-1846). Moorland Landscape. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 427481 (stock# 2496)
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Oil on canvas, 14 x 20 1/2 inches plus frame, signed "J.F.Williams", lower left. Truly a "Scottish Constable", young Perthshire-born Williams found work in London as a stage-set decorator. Wanting to dedicate his life to "pure art", he returned to Edinburgh in 1810, exhibiting at the Associated Artists of Edinburgh. He was one of the founders of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826 and continued to exhibit there and in London until his death in Glasgow at age 61. Roug ...click for details

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