1850s Animal Paintings

Antique Victorian English 19th C scene of Pheasants in an extensive landscape. A very rare example of Armfields none dog art. He was known to paint different subjects but I have onl...

Antique Victorian English 19th C portrait of English Spaniel dogs in a landscape chasing ducks. George Armfield was a mid-Victorian painter of mostly dog scenes but also painted ot...

19th-century English Folk Art School, sheep and lamb in an extensive landscape. Classic English mid-19th-century folk art painting. The style was very pop...

A delicate realisation with beautiful light effects that represents a dog and his puppies playing with a mouse. The scene takes place in front of th...

Picture Size: 24 x 20" (61 x 51cm) Outside Frame Size: 35 x 31" (87 x 77cm) Original antique frame Provenance: Galleria D'Arte, Genoa, Genova GEORGE (SMITH) ARMFIELD Exhibition Pe...

Picture Size: 24 x 20" (61 x 51cm) Outside Frame Size: 35 x 31" (87 x 77cm) Original antique frame Provenance: Galleria D'Arte, Genoa, Genova GEORGE (SMITH) ARMFIELD Exhibition Pe...

Oil on canvas, signed and dated left center. This painting measures 49.5" x 49.5" including the frame. This is an excellent example of the artist's work and given the size it could h...

Wonderful well painted English 19th century Victorian period dog head study. Very much painted in the manner of George Earl this is a very authentic 1...

Antique Victorian English 19thC portrait of English Fox in a landscape. George Armfield was a mid-Victorian painter of mostly dog scenes but also painted other animal subjects such...

An oil on canvas. of a. short horned bull in landscape by William Henry Davis (British, circa 1783-1865), signed and dated 1853 at lower left, presen...

19th century English, huntsman on his horse with foxhounds in a landscape. "Lord Gill and the Cheshire Hounds" 1854 Oil on canvas, framed Signed and dated l.r., titled on Frost and Reed, London exhibition label on stretcher verso 28" x 36" actual, 31 1/4" x 39" framed. Frost and Reed were for nearly 200 years one of the top London Galleries, dealing in Sporting, Marine, and Genre paintings. Their labels are regarded as a wonderful source of provenance to the many thousands of paintings they sold. Henry Calvert was an animal painter, particularly of the sporting variety, and best known for his depictions of horses, hunting scenes, and equestrian hunting portraits...

Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) A charging Hussar, episode of the napoleonic wars Oil on canvas 19 x 24.5 cm In good condition, except a very little dent in the lower part (see photographs please) Framed : 25.5 x 32 cm (some lacks in the gilding) The artist depicts an episode of the Napoleonic wars, it was in fact the favourite theme of Auguste Raffet, who liked to imagine (and idealize) this glorious moment of recent french history. It's also interesting to think of artists of his time such as Eugène Delacroix or Theodore Géricault, in the way he paints the energy of the assault, the way he paints the horse, also. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established. Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs. He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...