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English School, 19thC., King Charles Spaniel browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:Europe:British: Pre 1900: item # 965413 Please refer to our stock # 2484E when inquiring.
Raymond Agler Fine Arts 16 Pleasant Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 978-281-5048 Guest Book $2,800 |
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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 Henry Chalon (1770-1849) was portraying the breed in dignified poses in landscape settings. By the 1840's the social transformation is complete: the dog is now portrayed in a luxurious interior, ensconced on a velvet cushion, a classic column and lush draperies in the background and a landscape vignette indicating the extent of his domain. This work relates closely to the unsigned portrait of the King Charles Spaniel in the collection of the American Kennel Club, reproduced as plate 30, page 38 in William Secord's comprehensive survey, "A Breed Apart, The Art Collections of the American Kennel Club and the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog", 2001. The marked similarities would seem to indicate common authorship. For another canine portrait on this website, enter "2484D" into the searchbox on our home page. | ||
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