Horatio Henry Couldery - Fish for One
( England
c. 1880
)
Medium
Oil on board
Signed/Inscribed/Dated
Signed H.H. Couldrey lower right
Dimensions
15.00inch wide
12.00inch high
(38.10 cm wide 30.48 cm high)
Provenance
From a private collection in East Anglia
Literature:
Horatio Henry Couldery, English, (1832 - 1910) – “Fish for One” – circa 1880
Oil on board, with gilt frame.
Condition:
Excellent. The painting has been cleaned.
Description / Expertise
A wonderfully painted study of a kitten covetously eating a fish, while his siblings watch enviously on. Captured with skilful accuracy and enormous detail by Horatio Henry Couldery, one of England's finest painters of domestic genre and animal scenes. Born in Lewisham, London in 1832, the young Horatio became apprenticed to his cabinet maker father, however his love of art led him to become a student of the Royal Academy schools at 25 and exhibiting his first picture there in 1864. His works were widely shown at the Royal Academy, the British Intuition and the Royal Society of British Artists. The historian Ruskin wrote in 1875: Quite the most skillful piece of minute and Dureresque painting in the exhibition, its sympathy with kitten nature, it's tact and sensitiveness to the finest graduations of kittenly meditation and motion - unsurpassable- Couldery is represented in several public collections including Norwich and Nottingham Art Galleries. Fish for One was exhibited in Derby Art Gallery.
Price
gbp 12750.00 (Pound Sterling)
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