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Fine Animal Paintings for Bonhams Edinburgh Sale

A fine painting by acclaimed Victorian artist, George Robert Lewis, is one of the many sporting pictures in this year’s Annual Bonhams Sporting Sale in Edinburgh on 10 November.


Robert Nightingale

A gentleman with shooting dogs and the day’s bag was painted in 1820 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1828. It is estimated at £4,000-6,000. George Lewis was born into an artistic family. His brother, Frederick, exhibited at the Royal Academy and his nephew, John Frederick Lewis, is today regarded as one of the finest Orientalist painters of the 19th century.

Another famous artistic family is represented by John Frederick Herring, Senior’s Chestnut Hunter with a Groom in a landscape. Estimated at £15,000-20,000, this work also dates from 1820 when Herring was gaining a reputation as an equestrian artist to the gentry. A regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1818 until his death in 1865, Herring was in great demand and his work reached a wide audience through the many engravings made of his more popular paintings. One of his sons, John Frederick Herring, Junior became a well-known animal and landscape painter.

The sale also features a pair of charming hound portraits by Robert Nightingale. The paintings were executed for the Marquis of Stafford in 1882 and show five of his prized hounds, Gertrude, Stately and Folly and Comus and Falstaff. The paintings are estimated at £3,000-5,000 the pair.

Essex based, Robert Nightingale specialised in landscape, portraits and equestrian subjects. His son, Basil, was also an artist and they co-operated on a number of paintings including his most famous work, a portrait of Hermit, the 1867 Derby winner.

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