Philip Reinagle, R.A.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 April 1992, lot 71, for £12,650 (as a pair with the following lot);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 25 March 1994, lot 15, for £17,250 (as a pair with the following lot).

This and the following lot are two well-preserved paintings of dogs by one of the foremost painters of animals in Georgian England, Philip Reinagle, R.A. (1749–1833). Reinagle was only second to the great George Stubbs when it came to painting animals in a sensitive manner. His paintings of dogs, within atmospheric backgrounds not dissimilar to those found in portraiture of the period, were extremely popular. A set of eleven such paintings, smaller than the present lot, were completed for The Sportsman's Cabinet publication by the English veterinary surgeon William Taplin and sold in these rooms 13 November 1991, lots 104–113. Alongside publishers, aristocratic patrons too would commission the artist to capture their favoured animals in an appropriate setting. A similar view of pointers stalking grouse in a landscape, showing the dogs of Lord Middleton and dated to 1792, was sold in these Rooms, 6 July 1977, lot 55.