Horatio Henry Couldery was a prolific and highly successful English painter of animals and animal genre scenes. He is most known for painting cats and kittens and dogs and pups in a playful anecdotal style; however, he also painted numerous kinds of animals in a straightforward portraitist manner. Couldery was born in 1832 in the Lewisham borough of London to the landscape painter Robert Hall Couldery and Lydia Frances Ruegg. In his youth, he was apprenticed to be a cabinetmaker, however, at the age of 23, he enrolled in the school of the Royal Academy of Arts in London to pursue a career as a painter. At the Royal Academy, he became a proficient painter of animals including fish, pheasants, rabbits, ducks, mice, dogs and cats in a highly finished detailed style. Couldery debuted at the Royal Academy in 1861 with two paintings of fish (Mackerel and Herrings) and 1862, at the Royal Society of British Artists with two more fish still-life paintings titled Fresh from Market and Smelts. The artist continued to exhibit at both venues almost continuously for the entirety of his career, exhibiting over 100 works during his lifetime. Beginning in 1870, Couldery started showing pictures of cats and kittens and dogs and pups with anecdotal titles like The Little Epicure, The Sleep of Innocence and Patience. He became well known for these pictures and in 1875, his painting A Fascinating Tail caught the attention of the famous art critic John Ruskin who wrote, “[it was] quite the most skillful piece of minute and Dureresque painting in the exhibition... unsurpassable.” Couldery exhibited widely throughout the United Kingdom, including important venues in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Dublin. He was a successful painter and highly regarded artist in his lifetime, and today, his work is considered a prime example of high-quality Victorian genre painting. The works are on display at the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; the Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery; England Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery and the Glenmore National Historic Site, Belleville, Canada.
An aristocratic Pomeranian
By Horatio Henry Couldery
Located in London, GB
Horatio Henry Couldery (1832-1893) An aristocratic Pomeranian signed 'H.H. Couldery' (lower left) oil on canvas 19 ⅛ x 24 ⅛ in. (48.5 x 61 cm.) frame 24 x 28 ⅛ in. (61 x 71.4 cm.) H...
Canvas, Oil
Whilst the Sleeping Dog Lies
By Horatio Henry Couldery
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 20.25 x 27.25 inches Signed lower left
Canvas, Oil
Sitting Pretty (Pomeranian Pups)
By Horatio Henry Couldery
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1901' lower left
Canvas, Oil
Cats in interior
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LE ROY Jules Gustave (1853 - 1922 ) Cats in Interior Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame gilded with leaves Size canvs : 41 X 33 cm Size frame : 51 x 63 cm LE ROY Jules Gustave (1853 - 1922 ) 19th-20th century - French painter Jules Le Roy or Jules Leroy was born the 22th of December 1853. Dead in 1922 according to the Roubaix Museum Wildlife artist. He mainly painted cats...
Oil
$5,569
H 27.17 in W 23.23 in D 2.37 in
HERMMANN LEON - Painting 19th Century - Portrait of a Dog in Interior
By Charles Herrmann-Léon 1
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
HERRMANN LEON Charles (1838-1908) Portrait of a Dog in interior Oil on canvas signed low left Old frame re-gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 56 X 46 cm Dim frame : 69 X 59 cm HERRMANN LEON Charles (1838-1908) French painter 19th century Born 22 july 1838 in Le Havre. Died 1...
Oil
Steinbecks Sheep
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
"Portrait of a Spaniel, " France 19th century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Portrait of a Spaniel France, 19th century Oil on canvas, original gold leaf frame 15 ¾ x 14 ¼ (21 x 19 ½ frame) inches Signed illegibly, lower left Above the signature reads the not...
Canvas, Oil
Eklund Roundup 12
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Tigers of Bengal
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Ferdinand SCHEBEK (1875 - 1949) Oil on canvas signed low left - Tigers of Bengal - Old coppery frame - Dim canvas : 60 X 81 cm - Dim Frame : 95 X ...
Oil
$1,969
H 16 in W 19 in D 2 in
Autumn River Scene of Children Fishing & a Distant Windmill, Oil on Canvas, 1980
By Andrew Grant Kurtis
Located in Preston, GB
Autumn River Scene with Children Fishing and a Distant Windmill, Oil Painting by British Artist Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A. (Lon) B.Des. (Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art measures 13 x 10 inches ...
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
H 20 in W 28 in
Brown Trout -Late 19th Century Scottish Still Life. Naturalist Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
A finely executed late 19th-century still life by John Bucknell Russell (1823-1919) of two brown trout in the foreground, along with a beautiful landscape. Fine example of a period fish still life, popular in Scotland during this period. It is presented in a gilt frame. Unsigned canvas...
Canvas, Oil
$11,900
H 25 in W 29.12 in
Large Dog Portrait: Grand Griffon Vendéen Hunting Dogs Jules Chardigny
By Jules Chardigny
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Double Portrait: Grand Griffon Vendéen Hunting Dogs Jules Chardigny (France, 1842-1892) circa 1870 Oil on canvas, signed 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 (29 1/8 x 25 frame) inches Though pairs of G...
Canvas, Oil
$14,500
H 40 in W 54 in D 2 in
Pegasus and Bellerophon En Grisaille Oil on Canvas, 40x54 Inches
By Philip Melville Courtney
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pegasus and Bellerophon — En Grisaille Oil on Canvas, after a 16th-Century Italian Relief This large-scale oil on canvas painting by acclaimed American artist Philip Melville Courtn...
Oil
$7,890
H 29.14 in W 33.47 in D 1.97 in
Painting animals interior cats
By Alfred Arthur Brunel De Neuville
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alfred BRUNEL NEUVILLE (1852-1941) Interior with cats Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame re-gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 54 X 75 cm Dim frame : 74 X 85 cm Alfred BRUNE...
Oil
Yellowstone River at Big Timber
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil