By Eric Meade-King
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sporting Dogs: a sportsman with gun accompanied by dogs on a hunt, one depicted retrieving, the other flushing ducks
by Eric Meade-King (1911-1987)
each signed by initials lower right in image, inscribed to lower margins in pencil
graphite and ink on paper laid to thick card, unframed
Images each approximately 10.75 x 8.5 inches, overall each is approximately 11.75 x 9 inches (one very slightly larger than the other)
Two super examples of Meade-King's work studying the sporting life in rural England. One dog is being used to flush ducks over a riverbank, inscribed on the bottom of the backing board "The glint of green and brown as the old chap(?) streaked upwards" we cannot quite make out the third to last word) , the other to retrieve a shot bird on farmland - with haystacks and farm buildings in the background, inscribed at the bottom of the backing board "with the usual accompaniment of grinning and tail wagging".
These form part of a collection of similar drawings we currently hold by Meade-King.
Eric Meade-King was a prolific artist of all things sporting and surrounding English country life. Studied at Westminster School of Art in London and benefited from tutelage by Lionel Edwards, whose artistic interests lay in the same subjects. Exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and was the subject of of a one-man exhibition at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937 and 1938 in London. The artist captured the mood of the country sporting circles at the time very nicely, exploring both the social element in addition to equine and ornithological studies. He also authored a book; "The Silent Horn - Summer Sketches of Horse...
Category
1930s Modern Eric Meade-King Art