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William Barraud
19th Century Oil Painting of Horses - Two Hunters in a Landscape
c. 1830

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Attributed to William BARRAUD (English, 1810-1850) Two Hunters in a Landscape c. 1830 Oil on canvas Framed 29 x 40 inches William Barraud was born in Lambeth, London, one of 17 children of William Francis Barraud (1783–1833), a clerk in the Custom House, and Sophia (née) Hull. His paternal grandfather was Paul Philip Barraud, an eminent chronometer maker in Cornhill, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Hull, a miniature painter. The family was of French Huguenot origin who had come over to England at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His younger brother Henry Barraud was also a notable artist, and another, Edward, though talented in art did not take it up as a profession. On leaving school Barraud is said to have become a clerk in the Customs House where his father worked. William left his stool in the Customs House to study under Abraham Cooper, then an Academician and enjoying the earlier years of his fame as a painter of animals. Under such guidance William Barraud’s talents developed very rapidly; in his nineteenth year we find him exhibiting for the first time in the Royal Academy. In the following year, William Barraud’s work attracted the attention of the famous Master of Hounds, Mr John Warde, known after fifty-seven years of mastership as the ‘Father of Foxhunters.’ The approbation of so acute a judge of horse and hound indicates the skill with which the young artist reproduced the character of an animal on his canvas. His first picture for Mr Warde was a portrait of ‘Betsy’, a favourite foxhound bitch, and the next, painted in the following year, a portrait group comprising ‘Mr Warde on Blue Ruin’, with Betsy looking up to her master. The portrait group proved a fortunate commission to William Barraud; the likenesses of master, horse and hound were considered admirable, and the artistic ability exhibited in the handling gained the painter considerable reputation. Barraud was also fortunate with his equine subjects. It is possible that this painting represents Blue Ruin, a favourite of Mr Warde. Blue Ruin was known as an extraordinary hunter, his name derived from the fact that he was bred by a gin distiller at Maidstone. He was three parts bred, being by Mr Mellish’s thoroughbred Didler, by Pegasus, a horse nearly related to the famous Wellesley Arabian, out of a half-bred mare. He stood at sixteen hands and was no ordinary welter weight. On one occasion Blue Ruin was lent to Mr Asheton Smith, who rode him through an extraordinary run that lasted an hour; not a man of the field could catch them, and the horse still had plenty left in him when hounds pulled down their fox. Mr Asheton Smith offered Mr Warde a large sum for Blue Ruin, but the veteran refused to part with him at any price. He was a marvellous stayer and is said to have done sixty-two miles in a curricle without having the bit removed from his mouth. This horse reached his thirtieth year in Mr Warde’s possession, and was at that age still able to do occasional journeys in harness to London. A number of portraits of Mr Warde and his horse were painted and later engraved by Rudolph Ackermann. These works added yet further to the artist’s reputation, and his services were sought by many of the leading sportsmen of the day, for whom, often in collaboration with his brother, Henry Barraud. Henry had achieved success as a landscape and portrait painter and the brothers did so much work together that it is impossible to treat the career of each entirely by itself. William Barraud exhibited some fifty seven pictures at the Royal Academy between 1829-1850. William shared a studio, from 1835 until his untimely death, with his brother Henry, and collaborated on many subject pictures with himself painting the animals and Henry the figures. Several of these joint works were exhibited at the Royal Academy. The brothers also produced a book together entitled "Sketches of Figures and Animals" (H. Graves and Co. c. 1850). William also collaborated on another book with fellow artist Thomas Fairland (1804–52) called "The book of animals drawn from nature" (C. Tilt, 1846). In 1841 William married Mary Ratliff and they had a son Clement William (1843–1926), who went on to become a stained-glass designer (for Lavers, Barraud and Westlake), a Jesuit priest, poet and playwright. Mary died soon after the birth and in 1850 William married Margaret Harrison. William died in Kensington, London from dysentery and typhoid fever on 1 October 1850, in his fortieth year.

Creator:
William Barraud (1810 - 1850, English)
Creation Year:
c. 1830
Dimensions:
Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Old Masters
Period:
1830-1839
Condition:
Gallery Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU67334545712

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