Cuthbert Bradley - Pair of Hunting Oil on Canvas's 1919

Cuthbert Edward Bradley 1861-1941 Pair of Oil on Canvas's probably Belvoir Hunt dated 1919 and signed. Would benefit from a clean and has some craquelure consistent with age.

Height 47 cm and Width 57 cm

He wrote articles on fox-hunting for The Field and Horse and Hound magazines under the pseudonym Whipster and was also a prolific artist and sporting illustrator, executing one painting for the Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor) and contributing regular caricatures of hunting personalities for publication by Vanity Fair, a weekly magazine which ran from 1868-1914, for a series in which Spy, the famous cartoonist, also appeared. All remain highly collectable today, particularly one popular drawing, A Fox-Hunting Constellation, depicting the masters of many famous packs, including Sir Gilbert Green (afterwards Lord Daresbury) and his huntsman Ben Capell. Bradley had a deep love and understanding of hunting and it was reckoned that he knew every inch of the Belvoir country, following the hounds on a motor cycle long after his days in the saddle were over. This knowledge of the terrain and of fox-hunting is reflected in his work and he was particularly competent at hound portraiture while his horses are also good and show plenty of action

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