Oil Painting of a Pointer Dog After Schwanfelder

A fine and interesting oil on canvas of a pointer in landscape setting. The work is typical of dog portraiture of the period as the animal is the absolute focus with the landscape working only as a setting. The dog is strikingly posed in a pointing position but looking directly out at the viewer. The painting is not signed but does bare a very old attribution label on the reverse reading: ‘By Schwanfelder animal painter to his majesty King George the fourth’. This is a very interesting attribution and the work certainly does have elements that relate to the work of this artist. The painting has been lined probably in the Victorian period and it is likely that any signature was lost at this point hence why the attribution on the reverse was added. The work would have been cleaned and touched in at this point but overall, it looks to be in good untouched condition from that period. Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter. He was born and died in Leeds. He was the son of a German decorative painter and started out helping his father to paint clock faces and snuff boxes. He was renowned for his animal paintings and was appointed animal painter to both George III and George IV. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1809 and 1814. The painting is mounted in a mid-Victorian period frame in good original condition and would be indicative of when the work was lined. The piece is a great period decorative painting with a wonderful presence and an interesting attribution to a highly regarded artist. C.1820.

Overall sizes in inches including frame: 21 by 16 ½

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