1830s Animal Paintings

This charming mid-19th-century English oil painting depicts a landscape with grazing cattle and a quaint wandering stream. Here, amid this gentle bucolic setting, the silence is bro...

This exquisite 19th-century portrait of a gun dog, executed in the old master style, is a stunning testament to the enduring appeal of animal portraiture. Rendered with remarkable sk...

William Shayer Senior 1787-1879 Canvas Size: 15 x 19" Outside Frame Size: 21 x 25" Provenance: The Parker Gallery, Albermarle Street, London William Shayer was born in Southampton ...

This captivating early 19th-century painting of an interior farm scene by Abraham Cooper, circa 1830, is a testament to the artist's skill in capturing ...

This charming mid-19th-century English oil painting depicts a river landscape with cattle. It’s similar to works by Suffolk artist Robert Burrows (1810-1883). The son of a silversmith, Burrows spent the majority of his working life in the same trade while developing his artistic skills in his spare time. Possessed with a keen sense of the beautiful, his idyllic pastoral landscapes portray nature in a sentimental mood. His views were praised for their ‘effective’ and ‘natural’ state, married with a sense of harmony in composition and colouring. Indeed, there’s something akin to those by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). In 1832, Burrows became a member of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur Artists and is later cited as being its secretary. Other members included Samuel Read...

This exquisite early 19th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Jean-Baptiste Coene (1805-1850) depicts a young drover crossing a shallow river with her cattle. Coene learnt from t...

A chestnut hunter with a hound standing outside the entrance to a large stable building, with an extensive landscape in the background. Signed lower left 'D. Dalby of York' and dated 1835. Oil on canvas in a period giltwood frame. David Dalby of York (British fl.1794-1836) was one of Yorkshire’s leading equine and sporting artists. He created paintings of horses that enjoyed great popularity throughout the nineteenth century. He was considered to be in his prime in around the 1820s, although his work still commanded considerable sums well into the 1890s. He was known for painting his horses typically in an upstanding, elegant pose, set into softly detailed landscape backgrounds such as in the painting shown here. Sporting art biographer Walter Shaw Sparrow wrote in 1922 that his paintings remained popular because 'he has a naturalness of expression, alert and wide awake with sportsmanly observation'. He lived in York, moving briefly to Leeds it is said because he offended the local sherrif with a caricature which was regarded as libellous at the time. Dalby often signed himself ‘Dalby York’ and his paintings are to be found throughout Yorkshire in both private and public collections including York Art Gallery and Scarborough Art Gallery. Dalby was popular with his Yorkshire patrons, for whom he painted racehorses, equestrian portraits and hunting scenes. Among these patrons was Richard Watt, Bishop of Burton, whose collection of horse portraits was unmatched in the North of England. In 1824 he produced a set of three paintings depicting ‘Lord Harewood’s Hunt’. His racehorse paintings...

This early 19th-century English oil painting depicts a farmyard with cattle, sheep and figures. With his elbows resting atop a chunky bovine, a weary farmer gazes across his yard. His wife, clutching a large pail, stands alongside, ready to commence milking. Several animals look on with all eyes on the udders. Here’s how to make a cow feel conspicuous. Charming farmyard scenes were popular during this period as homeowners sought to decorate their dwellings with rustic images of rural Britain. Notable artists such as George Morland (1763-1804) and John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795-1865) were masters of the craft. Producing numerous characterful depictions of agricultural settings. Here, the hills are vaguely reminiscent of Malvern. Signed _R Wing...

William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs, and moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing heraldic painting...

John Miles specialized in rustic scenes, often depicting prize winning animals and contemporary everyday scenes and events, painted in a charming and characteristically provincial st...

A very well painted early 19th century oil on canvas depicting a fighting cock or game bird. The style of this piece is similar to the work of Ben Marshall...

William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs, and moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing a heraldic painting...