Briton Riviere Art
British, 1840-1920
Briton Riviere, a British artist, who specialized in painting animals. His knowledge of animals' anatomy was garnered through frequent visits to the London Zoo as well as through the study of specimens in dissecting rooms of the Zoological Gardens.
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Artist: Briton Riviere
Crying over Spilt Milk
By Briton Riviere
Located in Lincoln, GB
Crying over Spilt Milk
Briton Riviere
Framed 33" x 37"
In its original frame with the plaque.
Great Condition
Private Collection for the last 35 years.
Category
Late 19th Century Briton Riviere Art
Materials
Oil
"Strayed From the Flock, " Artist Signed Print, Engraved by Frederick Stacpoole
By Briton Riviere
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Engraving by Frederick Stacpoole after a 1867 painting by Briton Riviere, this work depicts a melancholy wintry scene of a dead lamb lying in the snow; a singing robin perched on a n...
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1870s Victorian Briton Riviere Art
Materials
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The starting point for Rivière’s painting is an 18th century Scottish ballad about two crows who find a mortally wounded knight abandoned by his comrades, his hawk, his hound and even his lover. The ‘twa corbies’ hungrily discuss feasting on his corpse.
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Rivière’s painting recalls another Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece, ‘The Stonebreaker’ by Henry Wallis which depicts a manual labourer who has been worked to death. On the face of it, the theme of both paintings is the tragic hero exploited, victimized and abandoned, but in ‘The Fallen Knight’ Briton Rivière has chosen to add a note of optimism with the addition of this steadfast little hare. The artist revisited a similar theme twenty-five years later with his Royal Academy painting of 1888. In ‘Requiescat’, a dead knight in full armour lies in state and sitting beside the tomb, mourning his master, is a devoted hound.
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Briton Rivière trained under his father, the artist William Rivière (1806-1876), master of the drawing school at Cheltenham College and Oxford University. At the age of eleven, two of his pictures were exhibited at the British Institution, and at seventeen he made his Royal Academy debut. Whilst still in his teens Rivière came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and in particular John Everett Millais (1829-1896) who was so impressed with ‘Charity’, Riviere’s Royal Academy painting of 1870, that he sought out the young artist to convey his compliments.
Briton Rivière’s great success came as a painter of animals, and in particular dogs and lions. By 1873, following the death of Sir Edwin Landseer, he was considered Britain’s greatest painter of animals. Rivière was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1878 and became a full Academician two years later. After the death of Millais in 1896, he was narrowly defeated by Sir Edward John Poynter in the vote for President of the Royal Academy. Today, paintings by Briton Rivière are held in the collections of Tate Britain, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Dimensions: (framed) 46¼cm x 61½cm (18¼” x 24¼”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 59cm x 75cm (23¼” x 29½”)
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