1810s Animal Paintings

This picturesque early 19th-century British oil painting depicts a romantic landscape with sailboats, cattle, estuary, and coastal view. It’s a celebration of nature delivered in air...

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 Society of Artists and Royal Academy, and Sarah Woollett, the daughter of the engraver, William Woollett. His brother Samuel Barenger (christened Major Samuel Barenger) also became an engraver. Beginning as a landscape artist, Barenger went on to specialise in painting horses, dogs and other animals, and hunting scenes. In 1807, at the age of 28, he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time. At this stage, he was living with his father in Kentish Town, but later moved to Camden Town. He went on to exhibit 48 paintings at the Royal Academy and eight at the British Institution. He acquired numerous wealthy and aristocratic patrons, and his pictures were also engraved for sporting publications such as W. H. Scott's British Field Sports...

This early 19th-century oil painting by British artist I Moore depicts a horse with its dapper groom. With his left hand clutching the reins, a smartly-attired young groom stands proudly alongside a bay mare. He’s dressed in a style befitting the 1810s with boots, pantaloons, coat and cravat. His top hat carries an intriguing black rosette, perhaps relating to an award. It’s likely that the painting was commissioned by the owner of a fine British country house who instructed a local artist. They’ve worked in a manner associated with well-known 18th-century equine painters such as George Stubbs, John Wootton and John Nost Sartorius. Only one other work by I Moore can be found, which dates to circa 1780...

Early 19th-century portrait of a Cavalier dressed man on a horse in a landscape. Well painted study of a horseman seated on his horse, dressed in a Cavalier outfit. Oils on a panel...

Set of 4 early 19th century Fox hunting landscape with men in red upon horseback. John Nost Sartorius (1755-1828) was an English painter of horses, horse racing, and hunting scenes....