Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the Edwardian era.
Title “Saint Bernard Dog Name Enonymous” by Frederick Thomas Daws of Beckenham Dated 1905.
Subject handsome quarter length portrait front side on view of a much loved treasured Pedigree champion prized pet, named Enonymous he has brown, white & black hue colour Saint Bernard Dog. He is wearing his collar & is looking intently towards the left.
A great display size with the frame being 69.6 cm high and 59.5 cm wide.
A marvelous example of the animal breed.
Circa 1905 Edwardian era.
Oil on canvas, set in the original wood gilt frame with a front protective glass cover.
Signed in the bottom corner by the known English artist Frederick Thomas Daws.
Frederick Thomas Daws British a known British artist who was born in the Victorian era in Bermondsey in the year 1878. Frederick Thomas Daw's paintings have been exhibited at galleries & sold at auction houses around the world the current highest sold price is 18,750 US Dollars which was sold at Bonhams New York. Frederick Thomas Daws has been featured in Bonhams Scotland celebrates the canine companion with the return of The Dog Sale, a piece from Art Daily in October 2023. Daws is regarded as one of the finest English dog painters, he loved to paint many prized pedigree championship dogs of well-known fanciers in Great Britain, India and in the USA.
He studied at the Lambeth School of Art. His father was Frederick Dendy Daws, his mother was Hannah Child, he lived in Beckenham Kent in England when he was only 18 he exhibited his work Companions in Trouble at the Royal Academy in London in 1896. In 1930, he was also the main artist at the Royal Doulton Works, which produced Champion Dog figurines. Advertising also played a key part in his life as Spratt Dog Food Company published a series of 36 picture postcards of his paintings. His father name was also Frederick worked as an oil merchant’s clerk. Towards the end of the Victorian era the family moved to Kent House Road, Beckenham in Kent. It was at this home location that Daws painted the majority of his artworks. After WW2 Daws moved to the south coast in Hastings where he lived until his final days in 1956 when he passed away in Beckenham.
His earlier work, like that of many other budding artists, was reproduced in such publications as the Illustrated London News. He exhibited more paintings at the Academy as well as around the United Kingdom and The Salon in Paris. Unlike his contemporaries Daws was equally adept as a sculptor. His three-dimensional dogs were made in various mediums like bronze, plaster, porcelain also concrete. New standards were set for Royal Doulton dog sculptures when Daws became involved in the collection. The first of Daws “Championship Dogs” for Doulton, issued in 1931, was H.S. Lloyd’s Lucky Star of Ware, who was Best in Show at Crufts in both 1930 and 1931. Many other champions followed, the last being the English Setter, Ch. Maesydd Mustard, which was first issued in 1950. Daws known patrons where Britain’s Queen Alexandra, Portugal’s Queen Amélie, and the Maharaja Sir Teen Chandra Shamsher Jung Bahadu Rana of Nepal. For the Maharaja, Daws completed 11 murals as well as sculptures.
Sources see Bonhams, Kennel Club, Wikitree, Family Search & Dognews.
Provenance Private pedigree Championship dog collection from the vendor, southern shire auction label verso & in the collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of subject matter.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
Incredible conversation piece for your guests.
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Oil Painting Prized Saint Bernard Dog by Frederick Thomas Daws
