George Armfield

Antique Victorian 19thC English Spaniel dogs chasing ducks by a river landscape

circa 1860

John Frederick Herring Junior, Antique 19th century English, Cart Horses in a farmyard landscape with cottage. John Frederick Herring Jnr. was a painter of sporting and animal subjects in oil and watercolor. His style was very similar to that of his father, John Frederick Herring Snr...

19th century English Antique Horse racing scene in a landscape with Jockey up. Wonderful and very well painted English Horse Racing scene. Simil...

English Portrait of a Jack Russell Terrier dog in a landscape, 'Flusie' William Albert Clark was an English animal portrait painter. He was the son of the famous Victorian animal painter, Albert Clark. He lived and worked in London, where he painted horses, cattle and very rarely dog portraits. Just like the other members of his family who were painters William's paintings were in great demand, like they are now. This piece is a very very rare dog...

Barenger was born in Kentish Town, London, the son of James Barenger Snr., a metal chaser and artist who exhibited paintings of insects at the Soc...

Late 19th century Scottish Highland Lock landscape, with Cattle watering E.Mulready was almost certainly a pseudo name for William Langley a well known English painter of landscapes...

Late 19th century Scottish Highland Lock landscape, with Cattle watering E.Mulready was almost certainly a pseudo name for William Langley a well known English painter of landscapes...

Charles Jones British, (1836-1892) Sheep in a Landscape Oil on canvas, signed with monogram & dated (18)81 Image size: 25.5 inches x 44.25 inches Size including frame: 32.75 inches x 51.5 inches Charles Jones was an animal painter who was born in Stepney, London in 1836. He was the son of the artist Samuel John Egbert Jones (1797-1861) and Dinah Jones. He lived with his parents and 9 siblings in Mile End and was a pupil of his father. In September 1859, he married Frances Rosalinda Downe, who was born in America. His son Arthur Bertram Loud (1863-1930) also became an artist. They lived at 12 Hayes Place, Lisson Grove from where he made his debut in London at the Royal Academy in 1861. He also exhibited at the British Institution, Suffolk Street, New Watercolour Society, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. By 1867, he had become a successful artist and they had moved to 7 Paragon Place, Brixton Hill. From 1874 he lived at Heathercroft, Balham Hill where he spent the rest of his life. Jones became well known for specialising in paintings of sheep, cattle and deer in landscape settings. He spent his time travelling around visiting areas such as Devon, Dorset, Kent, Sussex and the Highlands. However, it is for his skilful painting of sheep that he is perhaps best known, and for which earned him the nickname of ‘Sheep’ Jones...

Adolf Constantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff Austrian (1850-1924) The Escort Oil on canvas, signed & inscribed in pencil on stretcher Image size: 26.25 inches x 40.5 inches Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 46.5 inches Provenance: Omell Galleries, 43a Duke Street, London Adolf Constantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff was born Adolf Baumgartner in Linz, Austria on 10 March, 1850. Little is known about his early life although some sources suggest he was of Bulgarian extraction. He visited Russia during the 1880’s where he studied at the St Petersberg Academy of Fine Arts. He spent time travelling around Russia and Ukraine and began specialising in winter scenes featuring Cossacks on horseback. Many of his paintings depict Cossack military convoys moving at speed across a frozen landscape, as in these fine examples. He also produced animated scenes of horse sleighs...

Henry Garland British, (1834-1913) Driving the Cattle ‘Hame’ Oil on canvas, signed & further inscribed & dated 1895 verso Image size: 32.25 inches x 27.25 inches Size including fram...

**PLEASE NOTE: EACH PAINTING INCLUDING THE FRAME MEASURES 15.25 INCHES X 20.75 INCHES** John Frederick Herring Jnr British, (c1820-1907) Farmyard Scene with Horses, Poultry, Pigs & Cattle & Farmyard Scene with Horses, Poultry & a Goat Oil on canvas, pair, both signed Image size: 11.5 inches x 17 inches (each) Size including frame: 15.25 inches x 20.75 inches (each) Provenance: Richard Green Fine Paintings, London John Frederick Herring was born in Doncaster c1820 to the artist John Frederick Herring (1795-1865) and his wife Anna Catharina (nee Harris) and was baptised on 2 May, 1821. There is some confusion about the date of his birth due to an earlier birth record existing for 21 June, 1815. To complicate matters further, all of the census records indicate he was born in 1816. Some sources suggest this was an earlier child who died and that Herring was the child born in 1820. Herring’s brothers Charles Herring (1828-1856) and Benjamin Herring...

Alfred de Breanski Snr British, (1852-1928) Near the Fairy Glen Bettws-y-coed Oil on canvas, signed & transcribed verso Image size: 23.5 inches x 35.5 inches Size including frame: 31...

Colin Graeme Roe British, (1855-1910) Standing Proud Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 15.75 inches x 21.5 inches Size including frame: 26.5 inches x 32.25 inches Colin Graeme Roe was born in Dunoon, Argyll in Scotland on 25 December 1855 to the artist Robert Henry Roe...