Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Dog Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
Title “Extinct English White Terrier Dog” Follower John Emms.
Subject portrait in front profile of an historical extinct breed white English terrier dog in three quarter length view, a feature that particular stands out is the dogs sad expression, he is looking tiards the right and is wearing his collar.
A nice small size with the frame being 34 cm high and 30 cm wide.
Oil on board.
In the style follower of John Emms.
Initial signed by the British Victorian artist R.E.G.
Circa late 19th century Victorian era.
Set in the original decorative moulded frame.
In our opinion this is very fine example of the extinct animal breed.
The English White Terrier (also known as the White English Terrier) is an extinct breed of dog. "English White Terrier" is the failed show ring name of a pricked-ear form of the white fox-working terriers that have existed in Great Britain since the late 18th century. The name was invented and embraced in the early 1860s by a handful of breeders anxious to create a new breed from a prick-eared version of the small white working terriers that were later developed into the Fox Terrier, the Jack Russell Terrier, the Sealyham Terrier and later, in the United States, the Boston Terrier and the Rat Terrier.
In the end, however, the Kennel Club hierarchy decided the "English White Terrier" was a distinction without a difference, while the dog's genetic problems made it unpopular with the public. Within 30 years of appearing on the Kennel Club scene, the English White Terrier had slipped into extinction. However, in Britain it was crossbred with the Old English Bulldog to give rise to the Boston Terrier and Bull and Terriers.
Biography of John Emms was born in Blofield, Norfolk, the son of artist Henry William Emms. He became an avid hunter and became famous for his paintings of horses, and of dogs, particularly foxhounds and terriers. He exhibited at the Royal Academy several times, beginning in 1866. His paintings are signed “Jno Emms”. He married Fanny Primmer of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in 1880. The couple lived in London for a time but returned to Lyndhurst in 1881 and built a large house and studio named The Firs, where Emms lived for the rest of his life.
Biography of John Emms was born in Blofield, Norfolk, the son of artist Henry William Emms. He became an avid hunter and became famous for his paintings of horses, and of dogs, particularly foxhounds and terriers. He exhibited at the Royal Academy several times, beginning in 1866. His paintings are signed “Jno Emms”. He married Fanny Primmer of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in 1880. The couple lived in London for a time but returned to Lyndhurst in 1881 and built a large house and studio named The Firs, where Emms lived for the rest of his life.
He died in Lyndhurst. His painting of "Callum" a Dandie Dinmont Terrier hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland. In 1919, the owner of the dog, James Cowan Smith, donated £55,000 (£3,193,000 in 2023) to the National Gallery of Scotland with a requirement that obliged them to display the painting on its walls in perpetuity. Emms is considered a painter of great ability. According to the American Kennel Club, his painting The New Forest Foxhounds is valued at an estimated $800,000–$1.2 million.
Provenance Private Southern Shire art collection from the vendor, southern shire auction & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
Highly sought after due to the collectible animal nature of subject matter.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
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Oil Painting Sad White English Terrier Dog Follower of John Emms
