Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated these Snaffles Equestrian Hunting Prints to the 1920s.
Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this humorous hunting set masterpiece.
Subject hunting sequences depicting the same red coat rider with grey horse, a humorous scene first as he is about to jump the fence then in the second the rider has fallen off onto the floor with the horse also on its backside on the floor and showing the fence has been broken by them.
Title Set 3 Historic Hunting Sequences Jumping Over A Fence by Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles each painting has its own title inscribed “A undered to one ar cooms down, Ar am down, But damme ar won me bet”.
Circa 1920 early 20th century.
1 of the paintings is signed Snaffles by the artist Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles the other 2 are not signed but they are all by the same artist as he did not sign all of his sequence works.
In our opinion these are a fine very rare available example of his works.
Presented in the original traditional tiger oak masculine frames with protective glass covers.
A rather small display size with each frame being 27 cm wide and 30.5 cm high each.
Medium watercolour on paper.
Artist biography Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884–1967) was an English painter known for his humorous work and for his outstanding draughtsmanship and depiction of the horse in action. His works have been exhibited and sold in auction houses around the world with the current highest sold price being $27,600 US Dollars. Snaffles specialised in water colours His subject matter was invariably military, racing or hunting / equestrian scenes (polo, pig sticking), or some combination of these. Many of his most famous pictures are pursuits of racing and hunting. Snaffles had a distinctive drawing style, often showing just one person in detail. In addition, his pictures are often recognisable from the use of the incorporation of one or a number of sketches around the principal image (what is sometimes referred to as a remarque), and some additional caption, often amusing, to supplement the picture's title and further explain the scene. In contrast to many hunting artists (Lionel Edwards, Alfred Munnings etc.), a high proportion of Snaffles's work showed individual hunting characters, sometimes inactive, as opposed to a large field sweeping over vale country.
Snaffles was deemed too young to go to the South African War but in 1902, at the age of 18, he enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery where, after lights-out, he used to read Kipling to his mates by candlelight in the barrack room. In the following years he developed his brilliant artistic skills and was able to leave the Army. By the time the First World War broke out, he was a frequent contributor to periodicals, such as the Sporting and Dramatic, in the days before photography had become general. In the early part of the war, as an artist for The Graphic, he sketched many scenes from the front in France before entering the Royal Naval Air Service as a rating Motor Mechanic in small coastal motorboats. Later he was commissioned as a Lieutenant RNVR, and joined the team under Norman Wilkinson engaged in designing camouflage for ships at sea, which involved trips in the Northern Patrol.
In 1915 he married Lucy Lewin, who was born in Sydney, NSW, the daughter of a West Country owner-skipper of a trading brig whose wife, as was often the custom in those days, accompanied him; the ship happened to be in Sydney at the time. His artistic career continued between the wars, covering the sporting scene in England, Ireland and, particularly, in India. Apart from the sale of his sporting prints, he contributed to many magazines including Punch.
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated these Snaffles Equestrian Hunting Prints to the 1920s.
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Set Hunting Sequence Paintings By Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles
