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19th Century Oil Painting of a Spaniel Dog with a Country House in the Distance by Charles Bilger Spalding (1810-1871)
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19th Century Oil Painting of a Spaniel Dog with a Country House in the Distance by Charles Bilger Spalding (1810-1871)

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A 19th century black and white spaniel standing in a landscape, with a country house in the distance. Signed C B Spalding, lower right. Circa 1850.

Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame.

Charles Bilger Spalding (1810-1871) was a painter of sporting and country scenes. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840 and worked for the publisher S&J Fuller contributing a portrait of Satirist, the 1841 St Leger winner, to their series of Winners of the Great St Leger, Doncaster.

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41.5cm (16.34")
Width
57cm (22.44")
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Isherwood Fine Art has dated this Victorian Dog Oil Painting to the 19th Century.

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A 19th century black and white spaniel standing in a landscape, with a country house in the distance. Signed C B Spalding, lower right. Circa 1850.

Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame.

Charles Bilger Spalding (1810-1871) was a painter of sporting and country scenes. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840 and worked for the publisher S&J Fuller contributing a portrait of Satirist, the 1841 St Leger winner, to their series of Winners of the Great St Leger, Doncaster.

Height
41.5cm (16.34")
Width
57cm (22.44")
Date of Manufacture

Isherwood Fine Art has dated this Victorian Dog Oil Painting to the 19th Century.

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Archive I A nineteenth-century framed oil painting depicting a standing black and white spaniel in a grassy rural landscape with a distant country house.

19th Century Oil Painting of a Spaniel Dog with a Country House in the Distance by Charles Bilger Spalding (1810-1871)

Archive II A nineteenth-century framed oil painting depicting a standing black and white spaniel in a grassy rural landscape with a distant country house. View II
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A nineteenth-century framed oil painting depicting a standing black and white spaniel in a grassy rural landscape with a distant country house.
19th century oil painting of a spaniel dog with a country house in the distance by Charles Bilger Spalding (1810-1871)
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A nineteenth-century framed oil painting depicting a standing black and white spaniel in a grassy rural landscape with a distant country house.
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Nineteenth-century British sporting art emerged alongside a growing cultural appreciation for rural sports, breeding, and canine companionship. Artists of this era focused on capturing precise anatomical proportions, naturalistic coats, and expansive atmospheric country landscapes.

Paintings from this period were typically executed with oil pigments on stretched linen or cotton canvas, occasionally mounted on wooden panels. Frames were predominantly crafted from wood decorated with cast gesso ornamentation and covered in real gold leaf gilding.

Authentic paintings display natural age-related craquelure across the paint layer, genuine oxidisation on the reverse of the canvas, and period-appropriate stretching techniques. Frames usually exhibit wear to the gilding, revealing red or grey clay bole beneath the surface.

Classic portraiture creates visual interest when hung as an focal accent above a fireplace mantelpiece, integrated into an eclectic gallery wall, or placed within a dark-toned library space to contrast contemporary furnishings.

Keep the canvas out of direct sunlight and away from heat sources to prevent cracking and fading. Clean both the paint surface and gilded frame exclusively with a dry, soft-feather duster or camel-hair brush, avoiding water or chemical polish.
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