Attributed to George Armfield – After the Scent
( England
c. 1865
)
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions
26.00inch wide
18.00inch high
(66.04 cm wide 45.72 cm high)
Provenance
From a private collection in Somerset.
Literature:
Attb to George Armfield, (fl.1840 - 1875) – “After the Scent” – circa 1865; unsigned. Oil on canvas in new English made swept gilt wood & gesso frame.
Condition:
Excellent. The painting has been lightly cleaned. Old re-lining.
Description / Expertise After the Scent is an intuitive study of three terriers chasing a scent to a rabbit hole, with the backdrop of a moorland scene. With a descriptive field sports style and eager dogs, this painting is most certainly by one of the 19th century’s foremost animal painters - George Armfield. Born in Wales as George Armfield Smith later he settled in London and dropped the “Smith” painting and exhibiting as George Armfield. He was an avid sportsman as well as being a prolific and popular painter of sporting subjects. George exhibited thirty two paintings at the Royal Academy between 1840 and 1862 and exhibited regularly at the British Institute and at the Suffolk Street Galleries until 1875. Armfield painted dogs, especially terriers chasing birds, cats or mice and spaniels flushing ducks. With broad paint strokes and loose handling of the brush, the painter effectively represents the different textures of fur, grasses and sky. It is an excellent example of Armfield's work and readily explains why his paintings are often mistaken for those of the great Edwin Landseer.
Price
gbp 5500.00 (Pound Sterling)
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