Antique English

Antique English Signed Oil Painting Farmyard Animals Rural Countryside Scene

The Farmers Dog English School, early 20th century signed oil on board, framed framed: 23 x 29 inches board : 18 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very good c...

Drinking from the Pool European artist, 20th century signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 36 x 30 inches canvas: 30 x 24.5 inches condition: very good provenance: private co...

Vintage Oil Painting of Windsor Castle with Swans in the Lake by British Artist, William Burns (1923-2010). Art measures 24 x 16 inches Oil on board, signed and dated '82 Born i...

A painting of a chestnut hunter in a landscape with a horse and rider accompanied by two hounds by a woodland river in the distance. Signed and inscribed 'Melton Mowbray', lower left. Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame. John Ferneley Sr (1782-1860) was born the son of a Leicestershire wheelwright, the youngest of six children. He is known as one of the great British equine artists, perhaps only second to Stubbs in terms of raw ability. Ferneley originally worked with his father, until by chance the Duke of Rutland saw some of his work on the side of a cart on which Ferneley and his father had been working. The Duke was so impressed with Ferneley that he persuaded John's father to allow him to become the pupil of Benjamin Marshall. Ferneley was so talented that apparently he produced almost perfect copies of his tutor's paintings and they were said to have been indistinguishable from the master’s. Marshall also enrolled him as a student of the Royal Academy Schools. In 1804 Ferneley paid a man named Thomas Harrison...