Joseph Dunn, Portrait Of A Bay Hunter In A Landscape

Joseph Dunn, Portrait Of A Bay Hunter In A LandscapeThis charming mid 19th century oil painting by British artist Joseph Dunn (1806 1860) depicts a bay hunter in a landscape. Dunn was an accomplished painter of equestrian subjects. Standing proudly with head turned partially to glance directly at the viewer, this imposing stallion is a steed of merit. He knows these rolling hills keen to gallop through ample pasture, leap across ditches, and soar majestically above hedgerows. Hes bonded with his owner,

Signed/dated in the lower right and held in a fine rococo revival gilt frame

Smith was one of the foremost figures within the Boston art scene and well connected within a circle of highly regarded artists

He approached nature akin to a modern French painter during the advent of Impressionism in France and was one of the first to regularly use a palette knife

Upon graduating University

An atmospheric early 19th-century landscape painting by British artist

Following his training under Robert Scott Lauder

He’s represented at Glasgow Museum

an inscription refers to the sitter’s age as 19 and a completion date of 1650 - giving a birth year of circa 1631

‘post-Brâncovenant school

Simon Van Gelderen (1905-1986)

Béla Adalbert Hradil (1885-1968)

This late 19th-century oil painting by Danish artist Emma Meyer (1859-1921) depicts a tastefully decorated interior with two women - one reading by a window