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    Arthur Wardle 1864 - 1949. Welsh Hounds 1900. Framed Watercolour. Welsh Gentry.

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    Arthur Wardle. 
    English ( b.1864 - d.1949 )
    Welsh Hounds from the packs of Lieutenant Buckley & The Hon. H.C. Wynn.
    Watercolour. Signed.
    Image size 7.68 inches x 10.83 inches ( 19.5cm x 27.5cm ).
    Frame size 15.35 inches x 18.11 inches ( 39cm x 46cm ).

    Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original painting is by the highly successful artist Arthur Wardle and dates from 1900.
    The watercolour is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass.
    This antique painting is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
    The watercolour is signed lower left.

    Arthur Wardle was a highly successful artist whose works continue to be sought after and have been widely reproduced on postcards, books, cigarette cards, calendars and even boxes of chocolates. He also produced the famous WW1 recruitment poster ‘The Empire needs Men!’. He was largely self-taught and received no academic training, yet became one of the pre-eminent animal and sporting painters of his generation. He is particularly well-known for his paintings of dogs.

    Born in London, Wardle was just sixteen when he had his first piece displayed at the Royal Academy. This was a study of cattle by the River Thames, and was a good indication of what was to be a lifelong interest in painting animals.
    He painted a variety of animal subjects with equal skill but his work may be divided into mythical, domestic and exotic. He visited London zoo regularly where he would tirelessly sketch on the spot studies of exotic animals and birds from overseas, such as elephants, leopards, polar bears and tigers, and these would prove highly inspirational and significant subjects for his large mythological scenes, which basically sealed his reputation as an outstanding animal artist as well as a painter of historical subjects. His sporting scenes are now particularly valued. He is considered equally proficient in oils, watercolours and pastels.

    In 1880 Wardle lived in Oakley Square, Camden, but artistic success enabled him to move to the more fashionable 34 Alma Square in St John's Wood by 1892. By 1936 Wardle had moved to West London.
    Wardle was elected to the Pastel Society in 1911 and became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1922. In 1931 he held his first one-man exhibition at the Fine Art Society and in 1935 the Vicar’s Gallery put on an exhibition of his work. He exhibited 21 works at the Royal Academy from 1880-1935, and more than 100 up to 1936. He also exhibited at the other principal British galleries and in Paris. 

    Wardle undertook many commissions for owners of pure bred dogs. Among Wardle’s best-known dog paintings are those he completed for the owner of the famous d’Orsay Smooth Fox Terrier Kennels, Mr. Francis Redmond. The famous original version of the painting, entitled The Totteridge Eleven hangs in the London offices of The Kennel Club, and another version may be seen in America at the offices of The American Kennel Club.

    Today Wardle is represented in several public collections including the Chantry Bequest, The Tate, the National Gallery of British Art and the Leeds City Art Gallery.

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    Mr H.C. Wyn lived on the Rhug Estate near Corwen, Merioneth (now Denbighshire).

    Lieutenant Edmund Maurice Buckley lived near Newtown, Montgomeryshire (now Powys). Lieutenant Buckley was the only son of Sir Edmund Buckley Bart, Baronet of Mawddwy and Conservative MP.

    For a full biography of this artist please see his listing on www.bigskyfineart.com .

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    Additional Information

    Code

    AB-95473

    Dimensions

    W: 46cm  (18.1")H: 39cm  (15.4")D: 2cm  (0.8")

    Period

    Early 20th Century, Victorian (1837 to 1901)

    Nationality

    Welsh

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