Samuel Fulton (1848-1930)

Portrait of a Springer Spaniel

This charming British Victorian dog portrait is by renown animal artist Samuel Fulton. Painted circa 1900 the composition is of a Springer Spaniel sat on some straw outside with a wall behind them. The spaniel is liver and white coloured with a predominantly brown face and ears with white on its muzzle and white legs and tummy. She is wearing a collar and gazing directly at the artist/viewer. Fulton has perfectly captured her soft fur, fluffy ears and sweet nature. This is a lovely British Victorian dog portrait oil painting and if you love dogs, how could you resist?

Signed lower right.

Provenance Bears James McClure & Son Framers label verso.
The spaniel depicted was the previous vendor's mother's dog.

Click the link below for this painting
https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/gallery/animals-dogs/samuel-fulton/portrait-of-a-springer-spaniel










Woody 

I'm sure you can see the likeness! This was our gorgeous springer spaniel Woody who shared our lives for 14 and a half years. She was a bundle of energy and would run for miles. Her favourite place was Gwithian Sands in Cornwall -she would run down the steps and make a bee lline for the sea, no looking back. Happy days. 









 

George Lambert (1700-1765)

View of a Manor House and Cottages

This stunning British Old Master landscape oil painting, with excellent provenance, is by George Lambert. Lambert was a pioneer of British landscape in art for its own sake. Painted in 1744, the painting is entitled View of a Manor House and Cottages in Elizabeth Einberg's 63rd volume of the Walpole Society 2001 and is described as follows: 

In the foreground a road emerges from a wood to cross a ford and then leads up the hill to the right, towards a manor house seemingly built into the remains of a medieval or Tudor edifice. The main track, crowded with sheep and rustic figures, passes the massive square gateposts lower down the hill on the left. Further to the left is a thatched cottage with smoke coming out the chimney. In the distance is a wide coastal view. The main buildings, which are in the dead centre of the composition, represent almost certainly an as yet unidentified English view. 

The colouring  and detail in the trees and foliage are superb. This is an excellent Old Master oil painting by one of the all time great British landscape artists with extensive provenance. 

Signed  and dated 1744 lower left on rock in black.  

Provenance. Elizabeth Einberg, “Catalogue Raisonnè of the works of George Lambert”
                     The Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 2001 Vol. 63, page 149 no P1744, fig.71.
                     Antonacci Efrati Antichità Rome Gallery. 
                     Burden sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 20-21, April 1938 (376 repr.)
                     Robert E. Peters, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 1975 (41 repr.)

Lit. Schnackenburg 1995, pp 83-84, cat. no.14 fig 13. 

Click the link below for this painting
https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/artist/lambert/capriccio-landscape-with-figures

Henry Robinson Hall (1859-1927)

Highland Cattle at a Moorland Pool, Perthshire

This charming British Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted artist Henry Robinson Hall. Painted circa 1900 the setting is in Perthshire. In the foreground several highland cattle are stood at a moorland pool with towering mountains to their left. The sun is catching the mountainside and highlighting the vivid colours of the flora and fauna. This is a lovely atmospheric painting and a topic dear to the artist's heart.

Signed lower right. Titled and signed verso.

Provenance Yorkshire estate. 

Click the link below for this painting
https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/gallery/scottish-paintings/hall-1/highland-cattle-at-a-moorland-pool-perthshire

George Romney (1734-1802)

Portrait of Anne Evelyn

This stunning British 18th century Old Master portrait oil painting, with exceptional provenance, is by noted artist George Romney. It was painted in 1788, commissioned by James Evelyn of Felbridge as it is of his younger daughter Anne, aged 20 years old.  James was a Doctor of Law and Anne's mother was his second wife, Jane. Felbridge house, Anne's home, was in the village of Godstone in Surrey. This superb oil painting is a seated portrait of Anne, wearing a white dress with a green sash,  her forearms exposed and her hands  in her lap. Anne is blessed with the most wonderful long auburn curly hair and is visually stunning. Her body is partly  turned away from the artist/viewer and she is slightly gazing down at us with confident, clear eyes. Anne is pictured in a landscape with a dramatic sky behind her.  Romney's brushwork on her dress, hair and the background is superb. The delicate detailing of her facial features is also stunning. Sometimes Old Master portraits can be a little staid, but this one of Anne with her wild auburn hair and bold look is just magnificent. This is a fantastic example of George Romney's work and of an 18th century British Old Master with exceptional detailed provenance.
Name plate states: Anne, younger daughter of James Evelyn of Fellbridge Esq. 1788, aged 20. Romney.

Provenance With Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851)
With The Hon. Henry Berkeley Portman (1860-1923),
Later 3rd Viscount Portman; with Emma, Viscountess Portman (1862-1929)
By 1926; with her daughter Lady Moyra Dawson-Damer (1897-1962)
Thence by family descent.
Painted in 1788. There are various labels verso.
Mentioned in Lord Hawkesbury's Catalogues of Portraits at Compton Place and at Buxted Park, in Sussex, 1903, p.18, no. 3, at Buxted Park, as in the 'Dining Room, South Wall'.
Further Bibliography:Gower (R. S.) Romney, London, 1904, p. 175 Kidson (Alex) George Romney, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, I, p. 205, no. 422 (illus).Ward (Humphrey) and Roberts (William) Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay, London: T Agnew & Sons, 1904, p. 51

Click the link below for this painting
https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/artist/romney/portrait-of-anne-evelyn-1

Willem van Nieulandt (1584-1635)

Laban Demanding the Return of the Teraphim from Rachel

This very busy oil on panel is a Dutch Old Master painting dating to around 1620 by artist and poet Willem van Nieulandt. It is an incredibly detailed and colourful scene composed of numerous characters and animals set amongst ruins. It basically illustrates a topic from Genesis 31 in the bible where Rachel has stolen her father Laban's teraphim or household gods. This is a topic of much debate in religious literature. It is a stunningly beautiful Old Master painting displaying considerable artistry.

Provenance Christie's London.

Click the link below for this painting
https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/artist/nieulandt/laban-demanding-the-return-of-the-teraphim-from-rachel