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BARENGER, James (1780-1831). [Sporting Scenes. An album of oil paintings, c.1806-1818.]
12 oil paintings (each c.155 x 100mm), on paper, mounted, 2 of these signed 'J.Barenger' and 'J. Barenger 1806', bound into an oblong 8° album. 19th-century purple straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt and blind, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: J. Cundee (pencilled note) -- Charles-Dickson Archibald (armorial bookplate).
AN ALBUM OF TWELVE RARE SPORTING PAINTINGS comprising: Fox Hunting (series of 4, including Going into Cover, Breaking Cover, and The Death); Coursing (2 paintings); Woodcock Shooting; Partridge Shooting; The Earth Stopper; Trout Fishing; and Cock Fighting (A Cock Fight, and The Triumphant Cock). Barenger, a celebrated sporting artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 until his death in 1831, and occasionally at the Royal Institution. His works were popular with publishers of sporting literature, and a number of the paintings in this collection were engraved and published in William Henry Scott's British Field Sports (1818). Thomas McLean's The Sporting Repository, and Annals of Sporting by Caleb Quizem (1824) also included plates after Barenger. 'His own involvement in the sporting scene clearly contributed to his success as a painter. His paintings are characterized by a precise and accurate rendering of his subjects based on careful observation' (DNB).
12 oil paintings (each c.155 x 100mm), on paper, mounted, 2 of these signed 'J.Barenger' and 'J. Barenger 1806', bound into an oblong 8° album. 19th-century purple straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt and blind, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: J. Cundee (pencilled note) -- Charles-Dickson Archibald (armorial bookplate).
AN ALBUM OF TWELVE RARE SPORTING PAINTINGS comprising: Fox Hunting (series of 4, including Going into Cover, Breaking Cover, and The Death); Coursing (2 paintings); Woodcock Shooting; Partridge Shooting; The Earth Stopper; Trout Fishing; and Cock Fighting (A Cock Fight, and The Triumphant Cock). Barenger, a celebrated sporting artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 until his death in 1831, and occasionally at the Royal Institution. His works were popular with publishers of sporting literature, and a number of the paintings in this collection were engraved and published in William Henry Scott's British Field Sports (1818). Thomas McLean's The Sporting Repository, and Annals of Sporting by Caleb Quizem (1824) also included plates after Barenger. 'His own involvement in the sporting scene clearly contributed to his success as a painter. His paintings are characterized by a precise and accurate rendering of his subjects based on careful observation' (DNB).
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