TRAJAN HUGHES (B. 1670)
TRAJAN HUGHES (B. 1670)

A Concert of Birds: A Puffin, Jay, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Bittern, Starling, Magpie, Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, and a Barn Owl

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TRAJAN HUGHES (B. 1670)
A Concert of Birds: A Puffin, Jay, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Bittern, Starling, Magpie, Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, and a Barn Owl
signed 'Trajan Hughes' (lower center)
oil on canvas
32 x 38 in. (81.3 x 96.6 cm.)
Literature
Christen E. Jackson, Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World, 1999, p. 300, plate 69.

Lot Essay

The Welsh-born, Trajan Hughes is one of the earliest recorded animal painters in Britain and his works are extremely rare. He was a contemporary of Francis Barlow, who drew and painted similar subjects. Hughes' small oeuvre of bird paintings display a delightful simplicity with close attention to detail in the plumage and the features of the birds. His palette is reminiscent of Dutch and Flemish old masters but painted with a directness and charm rooted in British painting of the period.

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