Edwardian Hunting Watercolour Countryside Landscape by Thomas Ivester Lloyd

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A fine quality watercolour that shows an Edwardian hunt by this most talented artist.

In full cry, the horses are most skilfully painted. Their tails are cut to the fashion of the era. Most ladies rode side saddle, a refusal which always makes the followers behind rather nervous and yet, the thrusters carry on.

A beautifully detailed example of this most talented artists work, ideal for enthusiastic followers of this historic sport.

Signed lower right, presented within a glazed gilt frame with ivory coloured mount.

Size image only: H41.7cm L50.9cm

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Thomas Ivester Lloyd was a self taught artist born in Liverpool. He lived with his mother and four siblings. He was educated until the age of 13 and went on to work as a poster designer having been untruthful about his age.

Thomas later met his wife Florence in 1900 and the pair shared a love for animals which was what brought them together. He struggled to become an animal artist despite having several beagles, spaniels and a horse named Two Pounds after the amount he had paid for him.

Thomas and Florence had a son called Jack and the family and their animals later moved to Sherington. Not long after, Thomas enlisted in the army and went to France with the Remount Service, later being commissioned into the British Artillery.

On the return to his family at Roadside Cottage in Park Road, Sherington, Thomas built up his beagle pack which became known as the Sherington Foot Beagles.

He was later able to progress as an artist and found himself in demand for both art and models. He created all thirty battle dioramas at the War Office British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 and his work was also displayed in the Science Museum and the World fair in Chicago.

His works were predominantly sport related and many thought his horse portraits were some of the best. He painted a series of beagle studies and a variety of hunting scenes in oil and watercolour. Thomas illustrated a number of books and went on to become very famous for hound sketches. He illustrated for the British section of Sir John Buchanan Jardine's Hounds of the world. Some of Thomas works also appeared on Royal Worcester pottery.