portrait painting portrait lurcher greyhound after samuel john carter

Early 20th Century Oil Painting Animal Portrait Prized Lurcher Greyhound After Samuel John Carter.
Impress your clients & guests with this animal statement masterpiece in your office or home wall space.
Title “Study Of A Lurcher Greyhound Dog After of Samuel John Carter”.
In the influenced style after Samuel John Carter.
Subject portrait in full side profile view of a lurcher greyhound, standing proudly on a field pathway in summer countryside during the afternoon. With tall green grass on either flank, views of golden fields in the distance. The dog has his head turned he is looking directly at the viwer with cute wide open eyes. He has a short light brown white coat. Avove light blue sky with mixed white and grey clouds.
A nice display size with the frame being 34.5 cm high and 44.5 cm wide.
You will the different colour hues.
Oil on canvas.
Initial signed by the British artist J Warnes.
Circa 1910 early 20th century.
Set in a recent decorative Larson Julh Gold leaf spoon profie design frame, whi h enhances thuis work even further.
In our opinion this is very fine example of the animal breed.
Lurcher is a crossbred dog resulting from mating a greyhound or other sighthound with a dog of another type such as a herding dog or a terrier. The lurcher is not a "breed," but is a generic descriptor of a group of varying dogs. It was for hundreds of years strongly associated with poaching; in modern times, it is kept as a hunting dog or companion dog. Lurcher is an old English term for a crossbred dog; specifically, the result of mating a sighthound with a dog of another type, typically a working breed. The term was first used with this meaning in 1668; it is considered to be derived from the verb lurch, apparently a variant form of lurk, meaning lurk or steal. The tendency to "wrench" and "cut" rather than "course" was considered to be unfair and a violation of "The Law of the Leash.
In England from 1389, the right to keep a dog of any kind used in hunting was limited by law to those qualified by possessing lands, holdings, or income worth more than ten pounds per annum; in other words, royalty, nobility, the gentry, and the wealthy. This law, though repeatedly modified, remained in force until 1831. As a result, hunters and poachers bred sighthounds with breeds that could disguise their sighthound bloodline, often under thick rough coats, whilst adding other abilities including intelligence, stamina or turning speed. The dog chosen for this could be an available farm dog, often a collie or terrier.
Biography of Samuel John Carter (March 1835 – 1 May 1892) was a British artist and illustrator, known for his paintings and drawings of animals. His paintings have been exhibited at galleries and sold at auction houses around the world, the highest sold price was $15,120 US dollars. He was the father of the archaeologist Howard Carter. Carter was born in March 1835 at Swaffham, Norfolk, the son of Samuel Isaac Carter, a gamekeeper. As a child Carter took lessons from John Sell Cotman who ran a school of drawing in Swaffham. Basing himself in London and Swaffham, Carter established himself as an animal painter, including wildlife and hunting scenes, and was the principal animal illustrator for the Illustrated London News from 1867 to 1889. He also worked as an animal portrait painter in his Norfolk locale, including obtaining commissions to paint clients' horses and dogs. Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy, he drew positive comment from John Ruskin.
In 1858, at the age of 22, Carter married Martha Joyce (c. 1836–1920) at Swaffham. They had 11 children: ten sons and a daughter, with three sons dying in infancy. Most of the surviving children inherited their father's artistic talent with three, William, Verney and Amy, exhibiting at the Royal Academy. The youngest, Howard, became an archaeologist after gaining a reputation for his precise copying of Egyptian tomb decorations, he later discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Having suffering at least one stroke, Carter died on 1 May 1892 aged 57. Howard Carter later said of his father "being an animal painter of no little fame he was one of the most powerful draughtmen I ever knew. His knowledge of comparative anatomy and memory of form was matchless. He could depict from memory, accurately, any animal in any action, foreshortened or otherwise, with the greatest ease.
Provenance From The Deceased Estate of 'Colonel Peter Charles Edward Fishbourne' (b.1940 - d.2023), of Lime House, Earls Colne, Suffolk antiques dealer & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
Highly sought after due to the collectible animal nature of subject matter.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Front painting surface is in acceptable overall order. With yellowing to the varnish and craquelure & various foxing in places. Some minor paint touch ups and small repairs to the back of the canvas. The frame has some imperfections commensurate with being handmade.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frameHigh (34.5 cm)
Wide (44.5 cm)
Depth thickness of frame (4 cm)

Antiques.co.uk Ref: 5P2DKEGXG

Materials:

oil on canvas

Width (cm):

44.5

Height (cm):

34.5

Depth (cm):

4

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