English Sporting Artist

Antique English Hunting Scene Oil Painting Huntsman on Horseback, framed

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...

‘On the Arun, Sussex’ by George Vicat Cole RA, RBA (1833-1893). Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the legal exemptions which, under the supreme law of the U.S. Consti...

Clydesdale Horses & Farmer Ploughing a Golden Autumn Field in Rural Countryside by British Artist Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 23 x 1...

Winter landscape with Seagulls on ploughed fields in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist Art measures 24 x 20 inches Frame measures 28 x 24 inches Richard Woo...

Sunrise at Village by River in the English Countryside with Church Spire & Birds by 20th Century British Artist Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 21 x 17 inches This ori...

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...

Traditional English hunt scene, this painting is in a beautifully grained wooden frame. Black and white horses are running with the hounds in a green landscape with blue sky. Sign...

Cottage in a Lush Garden with Hens in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Terry Heath (1943-2011) Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 26 x 22 inches S...

‘Green Bay, Porthcurno’ by Samuel Phillips Jackson RWS (1830-1904). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1862. Samuel Phillips Jackson’s early oil paintings are rare and ...

Hunting Dog Two Birds Flying in the Woods in the English Countryside by British Artist Art measures 24 x 20 inches Frame measures 28 x 24 inches This evocative sporting lands...